[Qgis-developer] Future of spatialite provider?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Josef,

 From http://www.gdal.org/drv_geopackage.html

"The core GeoPackage specification does not currently support 
non-spatial tables, but starting with GDAL 2.0, the driver allows 
creating and reading such tables via the Aspatial Support 
(gdal_aspatial) extension. Note: starting with GDAL 2.2, the driver will 
also, by default, list non spatial tables that are not registered 
through the gdal_aspatial extension."

So with newer GDAL versions it is possible to create and read 
non-spatial tables.

Andreas


On 13.03.2017 17:13, josef k wrote:
> Here is just a reminder from a user/plugin maintainer, please ignore 
> if not relevant.
>
> If the spatialite data provider is to be removed then we will have to 
> update some plugins to reflect that which is ok, not a big deal. But 
> it is important that the current features of the spatialite data 
> provider are included into the OGR provider before changing.
>
> E.g. we are using the spatalite data provider in plugins to add 
> non-spatial spatialite tables. I could not achieve this by using the 
> OGR provider (although it was a couple of years ago I was looking into 
> this and it may have changed by now).
>
> regards
> Josef
>
>     On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:28:45 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
>         I'm wondering what the future of the spatialite provider
>         should be. I
>         find it odd that spatialite layers utilise the dedicated
>         spatialite
>         provider, but geopackage layers use the OGR provider.
>
>         I think there's potential value in removing the spatialite
>         provider
>         and always reading these layers via OGR.
>
>
>
>
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