Version 12 of SpatiaLite

Attributes

location

gaia-gis.it

author

Alessandro Furieri

Summary

The SpatiaLite extension enables SQLite to support spatial data too (aka GIS), in a way conformant to OpenGis specifications

Description

• supports standard WKT and WKB formats
• implements SQL spatial functions such as AsText(), GeomFromText(), Area(), PointN() and alike
• the complete set of OpenGis functions is supported via GEOS, thus comprehending sophisticated spatial analysis functions such as Overlaps(), Touches(), Union(), Buffer() ..
• supports full Spatial metadata along the OpenGis specifications
• supports importing and exporting from / to shapefiles
• supports coordinate reprojection via PROJ.4 and EPSG geodetic parameters dataset
• supports locale charsets via GNU libiconv
• implements a true Spatial Index based on the SQLite's RTree extension

The VirtualShape extension enables SQLite to access shapefiles as VIRTUAL TABLEs

• you can then perform standard SQL queries on external shapefiles, with no need for importing or converting them

The VirtualText extension enables SQLite to access CSV/TxtTab files as VIRTUAL TABLEs

• you can then perform standard SQL queries on external CSV/TxtTab files, with no need for importing or converting them

JMN 2009-11-07 Looks interesting - but I see no reference to Tcl on the site. I'm assuming by 'extension' this refers only to it being an extension to SQLite, and that there is no Tcl interface?

SEH -- Spatialite is an extension to SQLite, and thus the Tcl binding to SQLite can be used to access Spatialite's features.

TR --This works (using sqlite 3.3.7 or newer):

package require sqlite3
sqlite3 db someDBfile.db
db enable_load_extension true
db eval {select load_extension('/path/to/spatialsqlite/libraryfile')}

andrewsh On Debian, the following works fine:

db eval {select load_extension("libspatialite.so.2")}

Harm Olthof: using tdbc it works like this:

package require tdbc::sqlite3
set db_path {/path/to/sqlitefile.sqlite}
tdbc::sqlite3::connection create db $db_path
set db_handle [db getDBhandle]
$db_handle enable_load_extension 1

# The directory containing dll's for geos, proj4, etc must be added to the PATH environment
append ::env(PATH)  {;} {D:\pshare\bin\spatialite\bin\spatialite-3.0.1-DLL-win-x86}

db allrows {SELECT load_extension('/path/to/spatialsqlite/libraryfile')}

and if it's a new or non-spatialite database file, you should initialize it:

db allrows {SELECT InitSpatialMetaData()}