[QGIS-Developer] Processing: questions on temporary files

Matthias Kuhn matthias at opengis.ch
Thu Dec 5 22:58:46 PST 2019


On 12/6/19 7:52 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> пт, 6 груд. 2019 о 08:44 Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> пише:
>> Meanwhile, why not use a well known spatial data file format?
> I can be wrong, but using spatial data formats can be lossy in some cases,
> e.g. shapefile/dbf has limits for the field name length and field length. Some
> other formats may lack support for some datatypes, like datetime etc.
>
> Of course is there is a format which allow fast and lossless storage we should
> use it

I think GeoPackage should be fairly stable for this kind of usage.

And leftover files from processes will be easily recoverable with any 
recent software.



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