Welcome to mygeodb’s documentation!

In the same way that postgis adds spatial functionality to postgresql, libspatialite is a library which adds spatial functionality to sqlite. A spatialite database is an sqlite database created with the libspatialite library and containing spatial data (i.e. polygons, points, etc.).

spatialite is a development by Alessandro Furieri. Here is the link to the web site of Alessandro. Many thanks to him for this incredible tool !

The purpose of this package is to facilitate interaction with the libspatialite library. For example, it allows you to :

  • simplify the recording of geometries in the metadata layer

  • simplify the creation of spatial indexes

  • simplify the loading of shapefiles

  • simplify the export of tables in csv format

  • execute sql queries stored in external scripts

  • obtain information about the content of a spatial database (list of tables, geometry inventory, etc.)

  • …

In order to use mygeodb, you’ll need to install the libspatialite in your Python distribution. I recommand those two methods to install libspatialite:

  • directly via the conda package manager (version 5+ of the library)

  • indirectly via the installation QGIS (or QGIS package, that can easy be installed with the conda package manager).

Contents:

Indices and tables