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

[kimaidou]

Thanks a lot Even (and Matthias) for your prompt answers, and for pointing
out the current limitations due to in-memory layer approach.
I am build GDAL trunk to make some tests with some data

Regards
Michaël

2016-01-14 16:47 GMT+01:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:

> 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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