<html><head></head><body>More tools support it. Spatialite wasn't supported in esri until very recently and other tools may not support anything but shape files. It's become a lingual franca, and like English: it's terrible, but works well enough.<br>
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Jim<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On July 28, 2015 11:38:24 AM AST, "Árni Geirsson" <arni@alta.is> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hello<div>I find it interesting that the ancient shapefile format is (or at least appears to be) the default file format for QGIS when SpatiaLite seems to be a much more capable format. I have been using mostly shapefiles and when using for example the tools under the vector menu, intermediate results are saved as shapefiles, leading to a big pile of files after a short session of vector processing. Now, I have discovered that by using the processing tools the intermediates can be temporary files (still shapefiles, just hidden away in a temporary folder). After saving a temporary file as a SpatiaLite file, I can enter field names longer than 10 characters but I can not add a text field that accommodates more than 255 characters.</div><div>So my question is: Why is the shapefile format the default?</div><div><br /></div><div>I have also noticed that with 2.10 I can save in Geopackage format. Does that mean that support for this format has improved?</div><div><br
/></div><div>Any insights are highly appreciated.<br clear="all" /><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div><br /></div><div><font color="#000000">Arni Geirsson</font></div></div></div>
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