Simon Greener wrote:
What else is there to do for its adoption as the new shapefile for the open source community?
I heard someone say once that a specification isn't a standard unless there is more than one implementation (preferably more). Is there any other way to read or write a spatialite file than sqlite itself?
It's also not a standard without a specification -- is there one (other than the source code, which, of course is the only truly accurate specification).
Also -- do ESRI tools read or write it? Like it or not, they are the elephant in the room. My ESRI-using colleagues want to distribute data in the ESRI geodatabase format -- I don't like that, as I don't use ESRI tools, but I can't suggest an alternative that won't work for them.
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