[Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go SpatiaLite !

[kimaidou]

Hi agin

Surely I did not mean to drop Shapefile support ! We must let the user
choose. But now, as ESRI Shapefile is the simplest/default way (yet
limited) to create/edit layers, we "force" the users to use it, which I
dislike for reasons written previously.
I think sqlite could be a great alternative. It has some limitations, but
improves as time passes. We "just" need to modify QGIS tools to deal with
sqlite file more smoothly as discussed before.

Regards
Michael

2012/11/27 Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com>

> >Hi Stefan,
> >I think QGIS users are more likely to seek interoperability with other
> systems than ESRI users. So making ESRI work with QGIS via SpatialLite is
> probably not something that offers ESRI >users much benefit, they'll
> probably be using ESRI file geodatabases instead.
> >I believe QGIS will achieve more traction by working well with Arc,and
> seamlessly within an Arc environment, than the other way around. So while I
> have no problem with enhanced support for >SpatiaLite for QGIS (& Arc),
> this should not be at the expense of shapefile support.
>
> Hi,
> Try-ing to supporto esri arcgis will introduce other and bigger problems.
>
> We have many trouble due to the convention of esri for the hole that
> are touching the boundary of a polygon.
>
> The esri product will trasform this in a not OGC compatibile structure.
> That on a OGC system is defined Invalid.
> So when a dataset with hole is touched from a esri arcgis it could
> became invalid for OGC.
>
> This is so a problem for us that we fund a change to postgis to have a
> ST_IsValid with a flag for compatibily with esri gemetries.
>
> QGIS is absolutely unuseful try to follow Arcgis if QGIS himself also
> don't support this different structure of polygons with hole on
> boundaries.
>
> Regards,
>
>
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