html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1040965672,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1040965672,IC_kwDOCGYnMM4-C-Ao,9599,simonw,2022-02-16T01:02:29Z,2022-02-16T01:02:29Z,OWNER,"Documentation:

- https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli-reference.html#create-database
- https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli-reference.html#add-geometry-column
- https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli-reference.html#create-spatial-index
- https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/latest/cli.html#spatialite-helpers","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030732222,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030732222,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49b7m-,9599,simonw,2022-02-06T01:42:19Z,2022-02-06T01:42:28Z,OWNER,"Adding some thoughts to:
- #399 ","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030732093,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030732093,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49b7k9,9599,simonw,2022-02-06T01:41:37Z,2022-02-06T01:41:37Z,OWNER,Yeah I'd like to avoid adding any geo-dependencies to `sqlite-utils` if I can avoid it. I'm fine using stuff that's going to be available in SpatiaLite itself (provided it's available as a SQLite module) since then I don't need to add any extra Python dependencies.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030534868,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030534868,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49bLbU,9599,simonw,2022-02-05T06:03:38Z,2022-02-05T06:03:38Z,OWNER,@eyeseast how do you usually insert geometries at the moment?,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030521533,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030521533,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49bIK9,9599,simonw,2022-02-05T04:25:49Z,2022-02-05T04:25:49Z,OWNER,For ingesting geometry data from the command-line maybe GeoJSON would be the best route?,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030456717,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030456717,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49a4WN,9599,simonw,2022-02-05T00:16:42Z,2022-02-05T00:16:42Z,OWNER,"> The one thing worth highlighting in docs is that geometry columns can only be added to existing tables. Trying to add a geometry column to a table that doesn't exist yet might mean you have a schema like `{""rowid"": int, ""geometry"": bytes}`. Might be worth nudging people to explicitly create a table first, then add geometry columns.

That's a good call. I'm happy for `sqlite-utils add-geometry-column` to throw an error if the table doesn't exist yet.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030454114,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030454114,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49a3ti,9599,simonw,2022-02-05T00:14:47Z,2022-02-05T00:14:47Z,OWNER,"I like these designs a lot. I would suggest `sqlite-utils create database.db --init-spatialite` there for consistency with the `sqlite-utils init-spatialite database.db` command.

The other part of this story is how we support actually inserting spatial data from the command-line. I opened an issue about the challenges in doing that for the Python API here - #399 - but we need a good answer for the CLI too.

I don't yet have any good ideas here. The `conversions=` option in the Python library was designed to cover these kinds of cases but it's pretty clunky and I don't think it's very widely used: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#converting-column-values-using-sql-functions","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,Add SpatiaLite helpers to CLI,