SpatiaLite

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SpatiaLite
Developer(s) Alessandro Furieri
Initial release March 21, 2008 (2008-03-21)
Stable release 4.1.0 / June 3, 2013 (2013-06-03)
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]
    • Quantum GIS supports SpatiaLite native since version 1.1[3]
    • AutocadMap 2013
    • Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional 11.5.2[4]
    • Global Mapper [5]
    • OpenJUMP offers a Plug-In.
    • FME (also available as server)
    • TileMill renderer (uses Mapnik) reads SpatiaLite as data source. [6]
  • (Web)Server:
    • GeoDjango via the GeoDjango module. [7]
    • Web2py (web framework) native [8]
    • FeatureServer, a WFS server. [9]
  • Tools and libraries:
  • Web Apps:
    • GeoConverter - Free online data converter which reads and writes several GIS vector file formats (based on OGR), including SpatiaLite. [14]

Standards

Spatialite supports several open standards from the OGC and has been listed as a reference implementation for the proposed GeoPackage standard.[15]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "SpatiaLite Manual". Retrieved 25 January 2012. 
  2. ↑ http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/What_s_new_in_ArcGIS_10_2/016w0000005s000000/
  3. ↑ "QGIS Features" (in Englisch). Retrieved 2010-01-21. 
  4. ↑ http://reference.mapinfo.com/software/mapinfo_pro/english/11.5.2/MapInfoProfessionalReleaseNotes.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/products/global-mapper.php
  6. ↑ "TileMill" (in Englisch). Retrieved 2014-01-06. 
  7. ↑ "Installing Spatialite" (in Englisch). Retrieved 2013-01-24. 
  8. ↑ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#requirements
  9. ↑ "FeatureServer.org" (in Englisch). FeatureServer.org. Retrieved 2014-01-06. 
  10. ↑ "SQLite RDBMS" (in Englisch). Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Retrieved 2010-01-21. 
  11. ↑ "JDBC SpatiaLite - GeoTools" (in Englisch). Retrieved 2013-01-24. 
  12. ↑ "pyspatialite" (in Englisch). pyspatialite. Retrieved 2014-01-06. 
  13. ↑ http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/spatialite_quickstart.html
  14. ↑ http://giswiki.hsr.ch/GeoConverter
  15. ↑ http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/95


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