[udig-devel] Local data file formats supporting relational data

["Shaun Kolomeitz" <Shaun.Kolomeitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear UDIG Development Gurus,

I'm pretty happy with the way uDIG is progressing and the features that
you get "out of the box". You folks are doing a fantastic job with it
and it's coming along well - my congrats all round.
In the back end however I am wondering what format will help us to
manage a file-based geodatabase type structure ?
I am after a structure similar to shapefiles with "related" DBF's, and
unfortunately we cannot have PostGIS running, just a set of files.
Will GML "do it for us" ?
The Shapefile format doesn't cut it for us because we have a need for
long-text (memo) fields and one to many relationships in the data.

Can anyone suggest a format that we should look at (or is anything on
the horizon like SQLite spatial ???) ?

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Shaun Kolomeitz,
Senior Technical Officer
Business and Asset Services
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Division
Environmental Protection Agency
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