artemp/trac2github — Issue #799: SQLite plugin: better automatic detection of spatialite support/format
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-09 20:51:37+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

The sqlite.input works with both pure sqlite + rtree and standard wkb format geometry column, and with spatialite (which uses a different wkb format). But currently a user must set `wkb_format=spatialite` to trigger reading from a spatialite database, and if this is not set the map simply renders blank with no errors.

We should be nicer to users and try to autodetect spatialite format, or at least throw.