[El] Spatialite

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Peter Hopfgartner
<peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com> wrote:
> I think that a good support for Spatialite would be desirable. Spatialite is the spatial extension to SQLite.
>
> Spatialite files may under some circumstances be seen as a better GIS data exchange format then shape files and has many interesting features in itself, as routing and raster support.
>
> I will investigate next week if Spatialite will compile on the SQLite provided with CentOS 5.5 or if we would have to include an updated version, maybe taken from Remi's RPM repo.
>
> Any comments?

In opposite to offering Oracle Spatial support, this sounds like an
excellent idea :)

Cheers
Markus