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<p><tt><font size="4">>Well, if SpatiaLite offers some "proper" benefits and disseminates through all of the FOSS world, then it may get a >strong enough push even for ESRI to pick it up. It happened before... (kml?)<br>
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>If SL would:<br>
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>1) Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop and webgis<br>
><br>
>2) Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through desktop tools like QGIS<br>
><br>
>3) Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only)<br>
><br>
>4) Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take advantage of Spatial SQL, all other functionality)<br>
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>5) Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al.<br>
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>6) Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file, through QGIS<br>
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>7) ??more ideas/requests??</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="4">- Be a single file when seen in a file manager</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="4">- Have metadata as part of the file, rather than a separate file, to avoid getting lost when copying data</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="4">- Have "zoom layering" built into the file, ie the data is not reliable when you zoom in too much.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="4">Regards,</font></tt><br>
<tt><font size="4">Nick</font></tt>
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