Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Hi Andreas and Bernd Thank you for taking this further. I appreciate Andreas' challenge to start an initiative. I have enjoyed using QGIS but only contributed some money and would enjoy having a more active role. I tend to agree with Bernd, though, that it might not be a good idea to go ahead with

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Hi Bernd, I partially agree with what you say below - but let's not forget a couple of things: * QGIS is already an open and transparent project. So anyone can start an initiative: users, developers, people and organizations. If you don't know which developer could best implement feature X t

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Hi Andreas, Am 28.07.2015, 21:54 Uhr, schrieb Andreas Neumann : Hi Arni, I think the QGIS community should start an effort to better support the Geopackage format (or any OGR format) - and should spend >some financial resources to allow a developer to work several days to improve support

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Hi Arni, I think the QGIS community should start an effort to better support the Geopackage format (or any OGR format) - and should spend some financial resources to allow a developer to work several days to improve support for the Geopackage format. I suggested that to the QGIS PSC, but it d

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Thank you Alex - that answers my question completely. Arni Árni Geirsson *Alta ehf* // +354 582 5000 // +354 897 9549 www.alta.is // Alta á Twitter // Alta á Facebook On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Alex

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

It's more elaborate than that. Not all applications in the toolbox can read Spatialite yet either (e.g. SAGA). So the intermediate is something all the tools can use. At some point the toolbox might get developed to were any ogr data source can be used for the intermediates, but it isn't there yet.

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Thanks for the answer Jim. I understand that the shapefiles are lingua franca but to me that would imply that they should be used when exchange with other applications is needed - which is not always. But I had not realized that I might be constraining the set of available tools if I use SpatiaLite

Re: [Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

More tools support it. Spatialite wasn't supported in esri until very recently and other tools may not support anything but shape files. It's become a lingual franca, and like English: it's terrible, but works well enough. Jim On July 28, 2015 11:38:24 AM AST, "Árni Geirsson" wrote: >Hello >I

[Qgis-user] Question on default file formats

Hello I find it interesting that the ancient shapefile format is (or at least appears to be) the default file format for QGIS when SpatiaLite seems to be a much more capable format. I have been using mostly shapefiles and when using for example the tools under the vector menu, intermediate results