[gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles

[Matt Wilkie]

 >> I'm confused, I thought spatialite support was being added to ogr in
 >> 1.7 . http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html

I didn't know that, this is good news.

 >> As to ESRI, I asked at the last DOI meeting prior to the ESRI
 >> conference this year about spatialite support and they said they had
 >> no plans to support it.

Well I for one will open a request with ESRI tech support to add a 
driver for it - after I prove to myself that spatial-lite will work 
satisfactorily in-house of course.

cheers,

matt wilkie
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