[Gvsig_english] SpatiaLite spatial DBMS support

Chris Puttick chris.puttick at thehumanjourney.net
Mon Jan 5 12:58:55 CET 2009


----- "Benjamin Ducke" <benjamin.ducke at oxfordarch.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Silvio,
> 
> thanks for the link. I was actually not aware of that little project,
> so that's highly appreciated!
> Indeed, QGIS is shaping up nicely for the 1.0 release.
> 
> On the other hand, of course, we all know which our favorite GIS is
> ;)
> 
> Rivalries aside, it would be fantastic to see SpatiaLite emerge as
> THE
> open source standard for plain file geodata storage. 

As the open standard would be better. Interoperability is the key to healthy competition. Can an open standard be based on a specific piece of software though?

> SQLite support is
> 
> already pretty universal, so no reason why SpatiaLite should 
> not have the same bright future.
> 
> And then: Bye, bye Shapefiles, bye bye you horrible MDBs!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
> 

Chris


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