[Qgis-user] Use excel spreadsheets for join to vector data

[Alister Hood]

> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:50:18 -0800 (PST)
> From: Pietro Rossin <pierigis at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Use excel spreadsheets for join to vector
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> @Micha
> Thankyou for your suggestion
> Ok I can load xls files to sqlite and then make any sql join on that, but
> it's not user friendly and I have to make two steps, one is the creation of
> xls and the other the import into a sqlite db..
> If you don't want to mess with closed format it would be nice to deal with
> .ods format.
> You may say I'm lazy, ok, that's right, I am indeed ;-)
> But I think that for any beginner this solution will be super appreciated.

I think the solution is already coming: with GDAL 1.10 there should be support for .ods...