{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/276#issuecomment-391505930", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/276", "id": 391505930, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM5MTUwNTkzMA==", "user": {"value": 45057, "label": "russss"}, "created_at": "2018-05-23T21:41:37Z", "updated_at": "2018-05-23T21:41:37Z", "author_association": "CONTRIBUTOR", "body": "> I'm not keen on anything that modifies the SQLite file itself on startup\r\n\r\nAh I didn't mean that - I meant altering the SELECT query to fetch the data so that it ran a spatialite function to transform that specific column.\r\n\r\nI think that's less useful as a general-purpose plugin hook though, and it's not that hard to parse the WKB in Python (my default approach would be to use [shapely](https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely), which is great, but geomet looks like an interesting pure-python alternative).", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 324835838, "label": "Handle spatialite geometry columns better"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}