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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hey Folks,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just wondering if there is still thought out there from the previous thread about a portable and open geodatabase. I came across the nemesis project "</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">an experimental finite element code. Utilizes SQLite to store, handle and retrieve geometry and analysis data.</FONT> <FONT FACE="Arial">"</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.nemesis-project.org/index.php/Main_Page"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.nemesis-project.org/index.php/Main_Page</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thought that might be a good place to start that is already using geometry in sqlite.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As for software adoptions it looks like GRASS already has an SQLITE driver. </FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">QGIS looks hopeful. Here is a GRASS/QGIS-SQLITE tutorial </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://whatnick.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-sqlite-with-qgis-grass-toolbox.html"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://whatnick.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-sqlite-with-qgis-grass-toolbox.html</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">GDAL has some SQLITE </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just some more info for the fire.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT></SPAN>
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