SpatiaLite
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| Developer(s) | Alessandro Furieri |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 21, 2008 |
| Stable release | 4.3.0 / July 1, 2015 |
| Operating system | GNU/Linux, MS-Windows, Mac OS X, POSIX compliant systems |
| Type | Geographic information system |
| License | MPL GPL LGPL tri-license |
| Website | http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite |
SpatiaLite is a spatial extension to SQLite, providing vector geodatabase functionality. It is similar to PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SQL Server with spatial extensions, although SQLite/SpatiaLite aren't based on client-server architecture: they adopt a simpler personal architecture. i.e. the whole SQL engine is directly embedded within the application itself: a complete database simply is an ordinary file which can be freely copied (or even deleted) and transferred from one computer/OS to a different one without any special precaution.
SpatiaLite extends SQLite's existing spatial support to cover the OGC's SFS specification.[1] It isn't necessary to use SpatiaLite to manage spatial data in SQLite, which has its own implementation of R-tree indexes and geometry types, but in order to do advanced spatial queries and support multiple map projections, SpatiaLite is needed. SpatiaLite is provided natively for Linux and Windows as a software library as well several utilities that incorporate the SpatiaLite library. These utilities include command line tools that extend SQLite's own with spatial macros, a graphical GUI for manipulating Spatialite databases and their data, and a simple desktop GIS tool for browsing data.
Being a single binary file, SpatiaLite is also being used as a GIS vector format to exchange geospatial data.
Software that supports SpatiaLite
- Desktop:
- ESRI ArcGIS since version 10.2 as "Database Connection".[2]
- QGIS supports SpatiaLite native since version 1.1[3]
- AutocadMap 2013
- Global Mapper [4]
- OpenJUMP offers a Plug-In.
- FME (also available as server)
- TileMill renderer (uses Mapnik) reads SpatiaLite as data source.[5]
- Spatial Manager Desktop,[6] Spatial Manager for AutoCAD,[7] Spatial Manager for BricsCAD [8]
- (Web)Server:
- Tools and libraries:
- OGR Simple Feature Library reads and writes SpatiaLite since version 1.7[13]
- GeoTools supports SpatiaLite using JDBC module.[14]
- Mapnik, a renderer.
- pyspatialite, a Python library.[15]
- OSGeo Live DVD includes spatialite along with a short tutorial.[16]
- Web Apps:
- GeoConverter - Free online data converter which reads and writes several GIS vector file formats (based on OGR), including SpatiaLite.[17]
Standards
SpatiaLite supports several open standards from the OGC and has been listed as a reference implementation for the proposed GeoPackage standard.[18]
External links
- www
.gaia-gis .it /spatialite / - www
.gaia-gis .it /spatialite-2 .4 .0-4 /spatialite-cookbook / - www
.gaia-gis .it /gaia-sins / - www
.gaia-gis .it /gaia-sins /spatialite-sql-4 .0 .0 .html
References
- ↑ Furieri, Alessandro. "SpatiaLite - spatial extensions for SQLite". SpatiaLite manual. Gaia-SINS.
- ↑ http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/What_s_new_in_ArcGIS_10_2/016w0000005s000000/
- ↑ "QGIS Features". Retrieved 2010-01-21.
- ↑ http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/products/global-mapper-features.php
- ↑ "TileMill". Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ↑ "Spatial Manager Desktop Page".
- ↑ "Spatial Manager for AutoCAD Page".
- ↑ "Spatial Manager for BricsCAD Page".
- ↑ "SpatiaLite - GeoServer 2.6.X User Manual". Retrieved 2015-03-01.
- ↑ "Installing Spatialite". Retrieved 2013-01-24.
- ↑ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#requirements
- ↑ "FeatureServer.org". FeatureServer.org. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ↑ "SQLite RDBMS". Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
- ↑ "JDBC SpatiaLite - GeoTools". Retrieved 2013-01-24.
- ↑ "pyspatialite". pyspatialite. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ↑ http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/spatialite_quickstart.html
- ↑ http://giswiki.hsr.ch/GeoConverter
- ↑ http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/95