On 20/07/2017 00:09, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On 20 July 2017 at 00:35, Andreas Neumann <a.neum...@carto.net> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks all for your feedback. The "Add delimited text" way of loading CSV >> data is a lot more powerful and more flexible than the OGR way. So I would >> really prefer to use the CSV this way and still be able to edit and save >> directly to the CSV. >> >> Would this be possible as an enhancement? > > I still think the "proper"/"most open source ecosystem friendly" > approach here would be to port the extra features which QGIS' > delimited text provider has across to GDAL's csv driver. Then the "add > delimited text" button would become just a frontend for setting up the > parameters for GDAL's driver (and possibly auto-creation of a csvt > file too). > > Given that gdal already supports editable csv (and is used by many > projects outside of QGIS), it seems more friendly to the wider > community if any investment was about enhancing gdal's driver instead > of adding write support within QGIS only. >
+1000 on this :) _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer