[gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles

[Peter J Halls]

Whilst the ESRI comment is currently strictly true, spatialite is now supported 
by FME (as of the current release of earlier this year), so ESRI support may 
come in the Data Interoperability extension (which is FME) in due course - 
perhaps when 9.4 is released next year.

Peter

Matt Wilkie wrote:
>  >> 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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