[Qgis-developer] Vector equivalent of a VRT

[Tim Sutton]

Hi
On Oct 24, 2014 6:51 PM, "Andre Joost" <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
>
> Am 24.10.2014 um 17:08 schrieb Tim Sutton:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2014 4:43 PM, "Zoltan Szecsei" <
zoltans-MBOXMv9ChCPu3wEYkePUmQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2014/10/24 16:36, Andre Joost wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 24.10.2014 um 16:16 schrieb Zoltan Szecsei:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> I've been googling around, but cannot find what I'm hoping for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a VRT implementation for vector data?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Surely:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gdal.org/drv_vrt.html
>>>>
>>>> unfortunately, there is no easy-to use transformation for it.
>>>>
>>>>  From the page:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The virtual files are currently normally prepared by hand.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And hence QGIS can not save into that format.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> André Joost
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Yep. Looking at it now - thanks Alexia as well.
>>>
>>> -1 for me not trying harder before posting :-)
>>
>>
>> Make that -2 for forgetting that someone mentioned the fact that you can
>> have vector vrt's to you before on the QGIS mailing list  :-)
>>
>
> +100 from me if you promise to build a QGIS plugin for the purpose ;-)
>
> Greetings,
>
> André Joost

We could build something - at least for the use case where you want to
create a mosaic of shp files that have the same attributes... But i have to
wonder if there is much point - just importing them into spatialite or
postgis seems like a much nicer approach. You could always dump out
spatially separated shapefiles again from postgis.

Regards

Tim

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