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https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030629879,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030629879,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49bin3,25778,2022-02-05T13:57:33Z,2022-02-05T19:49:38Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"I'm mostly using [geojson-to-sqlite](https://github.com/simonw/geojson-to-sqlite) at the moment. Even with shapefiles, I'm usually converting to GeoJSON and projecting to EPSG:4326 (with [ogr2ogr](https://gdal.org/programs/ogr2ogr.html)) first. 

I think an open question here is how much you want to leave to external libraries and how much you want here. My thinking has been that adding Spatialite helpers here would make external stuff easier, but it would be nice to have some standard way to insert geometries.

I'm in the middle of adding GeoJSON and Spatialite support to [geocode-sqlite](https://github.com/eyeseast/geocode-sqlite), and that will probably use WKT. Since that's all points, I think I can just make the string inline. But for polygons, I'd generally use Shapely, which probably isn't a dependency you want to add to sqlite-utils.

I've also been trying to get some of the approaches [here](https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/wiki?name=Supporting+GeoJSON) to work, but haven't had any success so far.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",1124237013,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030534868,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030534868,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49bLbU,9599,2022-02-05T06:03:38Z,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,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030521533,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030521533,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49bIK9,9599,2022-02-05T04:25:49Z,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,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030456717,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030456717,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49a4WN,9599,2022-02-05T00:16:42Z,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,
https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398#issuecomment-1030454114,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/398,1030454114,IC_kwDOCGYnMM49a3ti,9599,2022-02-05T00:14:47Z,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,