[Gdal-dev] OGR Sqlite driver

[Dave Robertson]

Hi,

There have been numerous  comments over the last few years about the  
desirability of improving the SQLite OGR driver.

On 10 Nov 2005 Frank Warmerdam wrote (on the GeoWanking list ):

> The OGR SQLite driver is pretty simplistic currently. It only  
> supports geometries if they are in a column named WKT_GEOMETRY and  
> they have to be in WKT format. It also does not currently support  
> any spatial indexing.
>
> The OGR SQLite driver also does not currently preserve spatial  
> reference information.
	...
> We could extend the driver to support OGC style GEOMETRY_COLUMNS  
> tables, spatial reference tables and indexing by bounding box. As  
> well we likely ought to switch to WKB (at least optionally) for the  
> geometry column.

These seem to be very useful goals, and I wonder whether anyone is  
working on implementing this?
If not, then how much demand is there, and should a feature request be  
submitted?

Looking forward to hearing people's thoughts.

Cheers,
Dave Robertson.