[QGIS-Developer] Editable CSV files

[Hugo Mercier]

On 20/07/2017 00:09, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On 20 July 2017 at 00:35, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks all for your feedback. The "Add delimited text" way of loading CSV
>> data is a lot more powerful and more flexible than the OGR way. So I would
>> really prefer to use the CSV this way and still be able to edit and save
>> directly to the CSV.
>>
>> Would this be possible as an enhancement?
> 
> I still think the "proper"/"most open source ecosystem friendly"
> approach here would be to port the extra features which QGIS'
> delimited text provider has across to GDAL's csv driver. Then the "add
> delimited text" button would become just a frontend for setting up the
> parameters for GDAL's driver (and possibly auto-creation of a csvt
> file too).
> 
> Given that gdal already supports editable csv (and is used by many
> projects outside of QGIS), it seems more friendly to the wider
> community if any investment was about enhancing gdal's driver instead
> of adding write support within QGIS only.
> 

+1000 on this :)