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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The SQLite driver has a long history, I guess it was originally made to support FDO
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240811210751/https:/trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc16">
https://web.archive.org/web/20240811210751/https://trac.osgeo.org/fdo/wiki/FDORfc16</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">By that time there was no other use for SQLite so making it optional was probably natural.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">-Jukka Rahkonen-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lähettäjä:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Chris Toney <jctoney@gmail.com>
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<b>Lähetetty:</b> sunnuntai 9. maaliskuuta 2025 21.37<br>
<b>Vastaanottaja:</b> Rahkonen Jukka <jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi><br>
<b>Kopio:</b> gdal dev <gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Aihe:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Right, libsqlite3 is definitely ubiquitous, and I always want libspatialite too. But that is different from whether the GDAL vector driver "SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS" is compiled in, which it is not by default. That would depend more on
whether various package management systems choose to enable it in their distributions, for example. Or if there are reasons that custom builds would tend to exclude it sometimes. My sense is that the driver is generally available even though it's optional
at build time. Just wondering if there are known exceptions to be aware of, or if my assumptions above are wrong? Why is it an optionally compiled in driver given ubiquity of SQLite? Just because GPKG mostly fulfills that need and is standard?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 1:02<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Rahkonen Jukka <<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi">jukka.rahkonen@maanmittauslaitos.fi</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Proj requires SQLite anyway and you may want to do coordinate transformations with GDAL. Without SpatiaLite you’ll miss only the SpatiaLite
SQL functions, and of course support for SpatiaLite databases. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lähettäjä:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gdal-dev <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
<b>Puolesta </b>Chris Toney via gdal-dev<br>
<b>Lähetetty:</b> sunnuntai 9. maaliskuuta 2025 20.31<br>
<b>Vastaanottaja:</b> gdal dev <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Aihe:</b> [gdal-dev] SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS driver says "SQLite is an optionally compiled in driver. It is not compiled in by default." It seems fairly ubiquitous though. Is that a safe assumption
(more or less), or are there important caveats to know about? I know that SQLite could be present without SpatiaLite support, but I'm wondering about the SQLite driver for "regular" SQLite databases, with or without SpatiaLite.<o:p></o:p></p>
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