[gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles

[Chris Barker]

Simon Greener wrote:
> What else is there to do for its adoption as the new shapefile for the 
> open source community?

I heard someone say once that a specification isn't a standard unless 
there is more than one implementation (preferably more). Is there any 
other way to read or write a spatialite file than sqlite itself?

It's also not a standard without a specification -- is there one (other 
than the source code, which, of course is the only truly accurate 
specification).

Also -- do ESRI tools read or write it? Like it or not, they are the 
elephant in the room. My ESRI-using colleagues want to distribute data 
in the ESRI geodatabase format -- I don't like that, as I don't use ESRI 
tools, but I can't suggest an alternative that won't work for them.

Sigh.

-Chris

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