On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Alexander Bruy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2012/8/16 Etienne Tourigny <[email protected]>: >> Second (and my preferred) is to store them in a single spatialite file >> (or several, depending on file size). > > I'll recommend SpatiaLite and/or PostGIS. But as you already mention, > SpatiaLite currently has very limited support in proprietary GIS. AFAIK, > ArcMap and MapInfo don't support it.
Spatialite is much easier to share than postgis. that's what I was afraid of - athough I did find some partial information on upcoming support and using plugins, is that possible? > >> Also, what is support for spatialite inside QGis and the various >> sextante back-ends, esp. R - both standalone and inside sextante? I am >> asking this because as far as I know, many qgis tools export to >> shapefile only, so storing everything in spatialite could represent >> complications down the road. > > As I know, SEXTANTE works with data using qgis layers interface, so > input format (shape or SpatiaLite) doesn't matter for input I know it's ok, I am wondering about generating spatialite files and in-place editing (without doing sql). For example, currently ftools output to shapefile only, correct? thanks, Etienne > > -- > Alexander Bruy _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
