[Qgis-user] columns in spatialite

[Alex M]

On 11/12/2015 04:12 AM, Micha Silver wrote:
> On 12/11/2015 14:10, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Bernd Vogelgesang 
>> <<mailto:bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de>bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de> wrote:
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>>     Am 12.11.2015, 08:01 Uhr, schrieb Paolo Cavallini
>>     <<mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>cavallini at faunalia.it>:
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>>         Il 12/11/2015 00:31, Bernd Vogelgesang ha scritto:
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>>     I repeatedly ask for this, and do not receive much positive echo. What are
>>     the reasons for people to prefer ESRI shapes over sqlite files? Are they
>>     not aware of the benefits or do I just miss sth completely obvious that is
>>     an argument against sqlite?
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> Well there's still the problem of exchanging data with users of the other 
> proprietary GIS software. Spatialite is still, unfortunately, not that popular.

FYI, ArcGIS as of 10.2 can read Spatialite files. Even more recent
ArcGIS can read GeoPackage.

-Alex