[Qgis-developer] GDAL 2.1 can update Geojson files - What is missing in QGIS to edit GeoJSON files ?

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 14 janvier 2016 16:38:43, Matthias Kuhn a écrit :
> Hi Michaël
> 
> On 01/14/2016 04:18 PM, kimaidou wrote:
> > Hi QGIS,
> > 
> > I have read that GDAL can now update GeoJSON  since version 2.1.0. See
> > [1]
> > 
> > If I build QGIS with GDAL 2.1, would I be able to edit the GeoJSON as
> > I can for Shapefiles ? For the record, capabilities are defined here [2]
> > 
> > Perhaps the GDAL doc about "updating existing GeoJSON files" has a
> > different meaning that the need raised by Even Rouault here [3]
> > 
> > Or is the best approach to create a specific QGIS driver for GeoJSON ?
> > I would try to propose a PR for this if this is the best way to go.
> 
> Giving GDAL 2.1 a try will be way less effort than implementing a
> GeoJSON driver inside QGIS. And if there are things still left to be
> fixed, it's probably better to fix things on the GDAL end since this way
> the support for it is in a library shared by many FOSSGIS tools.
> 
> (Please note that this recommendation is only meant for non-database
> providers. Feel free to propose a native GeoPackage driver ;) )

Just curious to know what advantage a native GeoPackage driver would bring 
over the one in OGR ?

> 
> All the best

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