Support for spatial data
Gregory King
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Importing spatial date types
guido@nextnext.nl
Currently the import module only supports strings, integers, boolean, floats and datatime.
This means we cannot import spatial date types we need to create maps of e.g. the format
point({latitude:51.22074896608231, longitude:4.4067613031634645}
Can this feature be added? Thank you
M
Mark
Gregory King: the data generally follows the ESRI shapefile open standard, though the geography and underlying data is now based on their GDB standard, which I don't believe is open at this time. Shapefiles had a 'shape' filed which stores the geometry and location information (points, lines, polygons, et al). We do occasionally have some data with X and Y in separate fields. And there is a host of structured and unstructured data that has typical USPS addressing as location information. Thanks.
Gregory King
Thanks for raising the request. What format does your spatial data tend to be in - separate columns for latitude and longitude, one column with both delimited within it, something else?