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If by "they" you mean spatialite and geopackage then they are very much comparable, in that they are both ways to store spatial data in sqlite databases. From
by yosamino 6y ago
If by "they" you mean spatialite and geopackage then they are very much comparable, in that they are both ways to store spatial data in sqlite databases.
From the geopackage FAQs[0]:
> What is the relationship between GeoPackage and SpatiaLite?
>
> SpatiaLite was a major influence on the vector portions of GeoPackage but after extensive
> discussions, the working group chose to diverge from the SpatiaLite format in a few subtle ways.
> SpatiaLite now supports GeoPackage as of version 4.2.0.
[0] https://www.geopackage.org/#faq https://www.geopackage.org/#faq
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoSure, but Geopackage is a transport format: it describes itself as "a format for transferring geospatial information". Spatialite is a spatial analysis database: it describes itself as "a complete and powerful Spatial DBMS (mostly OGC-SFS compliant". They both use the same container, SQLite. And indeed there are other geospatial formats built on SQLite, such as mbtiles. But the intents are very different.