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diff --git a/gis/libspatialite/README b/gis/libspatialite/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..52bbc54ffb54d --- /dev/null +++ b/gis/libspatialite/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +SpatiaLite is an open source library intended to extend the SQLite core +to support fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities. SpatiaLite is smoothly +integrated into SQLite to provide a complete and powerful Spatial DBMS +(mostly OGC-SFS compliant). Using SQLite + SpatiaLite you can effectively +deploy an alternative open source Spatial DBMS roughly equivalent to +PostgreSQL + PostGIS. + +liblwgeom (postgis) is optional but strongly recommended dependency. To build +spatialite with liblwgeom support set LWGEOM=yes. |