Spatial Database
SpatiaLite is an SQLite database engine with spatial functions added.
SQLite is a popular DBMS, simple, robust, easy to use and really lightweight. Each SQLite database is simply a file; you can freely copy it, compress it, send it on a LAN or WEB with no complication at all.
The files are also portable; the same database file will work on Windows, Linux, MacOs etc.
Core Features
The SpatiaLite extension enables SQLite to support spatial data conformant to OGC specifications.
- 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, this comprehending sophisticated spatial analysis functions such as Overlaps(), Touches(), Union(), Buffer() ..
- Supports full Spatial metadata along the OpenGis specifications
- Supports importing and exporting 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
- The GUI tool supports all this, in an user friendly way
Details
Website: http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/
Licence: MPL v1.1 and GPL v3
Software Version: 2.3.1 / 2.4 beta
Supported Platforms: Linux, Mac, Windows
API Interfaces: C++
