Future Plans for Integration with Spatialite?

Question

Are their any plans to integrate with spatialite?  

I could see this being used by many users in both public and private sector.  Although, it might be difficult to install and setup PostgreSQL and PostGIS for those users with less technical knowledge and/or companies that have very strict IT policies.  I could see the installation and configuration of PostgreSQL & PostGIS being very hard move forward in a large municipality.  Spatialite might be easier to implement for end-users and the database could easily be migrated to different systems and/or shared with more users (CLOMR/LOMR studies, drainage reports, master planning activities, etc.).  

This a great project though...I can't wait to give it a try and see where is goes from here!

Answer 1

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

We do not plan to go back to Spatialite. RiverGIS started with Spatialite in the background but then we decided to move to PostGIS. We are aware of the difficulties with installing and maintaining the database server. There are many PostGIS hosting services [1] you can use instead of running your own server.

What we do plan is to add a migration/sharing tool that would let the users move the river network data from one server to another.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=postgis+hosting