September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
486 pages
10h 56m
English
book
Mastering QGIS - Second Edition
by Kurt Menke, GISP, Paolo Corti, Richard Smith Jr., GISP, Luigi Pirelli, John Van Hoesen, GISP
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Importing data into a SpatiaLite database
Importing data into a SpatiaLite database is easy using the DB Manager. SpatiaLite supports the following commonly-used formats, as well as many other formats, for importing files:
- Shapefile (
.shp) - dBase (
.dbf) - Text (
.txt), Commas Separate Values (.csv), and Excel spreadsheets (.xls/.xlsx) - AutoCAD DXF (
.dxf) - Geography Markup Language (
.gml) - Keyhole Markup Language (
.kml) - Geometry JavaScript Object Notation (
.geojson) - Scalable Vector Graphics (
.svg)
Let's use DB Manager to import data in a few different formats into our GiffordPinochet.sqlite database.
Importing KML into SpatiaLite
To import a KML file into a SpatiaLite database, complete the following steps:
- Open DB Manager by clicking on DB Manager under Database ...
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