Hi all first I'm sorry if this is a generic question, but I feel that the qgis community can give me some valuable pointers.
I have a number of files containing simple plygon data (burned area maps), that I wish to share with collaborators and eventually make public. These files will be used for data analysis in open-source software (qgis/R) and should be accessed in other software with relative ease. I would appreciate feedback on which file format would be the best. The first obvious answer is to store it in shapefile format, but this has many drawbacks: - many limitations due to file format (fields, CRS complications, etc.) - many files: one set per map, many files per set - lack of internal sql support (this can be overcome easily) Second (and my preferred) is to store them in a single spatialite file (or several, depending on file size). But I perceive that spatialite has the disadvantage of relatively poor support in many GIS apps (mostly the $$$ ones) - what is the status on this? Also, what is support for spatialite inside QGis and the various sextante back-ends, esp. R - both standalone and inside sextante? I am asking this because as far as I know, many qgis tools export to shapefile only, so storing everything in spatialite could represent complications down the road. Many thanks, Etienne _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
