[Qgis-developer] more than one geometry column

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Fri Nov 7 02:06:51 EST 2008


It's wkt, and I've used it before to generate shapefiles with OGR2OGR.
Ah it makes sense that the multiple layers would trip it up.

Thanks,
Alex

Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:49 -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
> 
> 8<--------------snip-----------
> 
>> I'm curious about adapting this to read wkt columns in sqlite directly,
>> I guess I should look at implementing a QgsSQLiteProvider and take some
>> hints from yours.
> 
> 
> GDAL/OGR already has support for Sqlite (though I think it uses Wkb
> rather than Wkt) so you may want to look at writing a front end to that
> - the current add layer functionality does not work for cases like
> sqlite where you need to select a sublayer after selecting a file. That
> said Godofredo Contreras was working on generic access to OGR database
> based datasets at one point and it may be good to hook up with him first
> and look at collaborating....
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>>




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