QGIS and SpatiaLite 4.0.0
About a week ago, Alessandro Furieri announced the release of SpatiaLite 4.0.0 — a spatial extension to SQLite. There are not just a lot of changes, there are VERY many of them. And some of them may cause compatibility problems, so all users should read the migration guide.
Among the most interesting features:
- tessellation support
- VirtualOGR driver
- support for SQL/MM topology
- and more
And yesterday, the SpatiaLite data provider in QGIS was updated. Compatibility with databases created in previous versions of SpatiaLite is maintained. However, you will need to convert your databases to the SpatiaLite 4.0.0 format (you can use spatialite_convert from spatialite-tools) to take full advantage of the new features.