Format GeoPackage has to become the new shapefile

[malika_belkaid]

"GeoPackage" is the format of the future: http://www.geopackage.org/ It has to become the new "Shapefile", but without all the limitations shapefiles comes with.
It's already supported by QGIS. And it has to be integrated in Map 3D! Because:
GeoPackage is an open, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
Since a GeoPackage is a database, it supports direct use, meaning that its data can be accessed and updated in a "native" storage format without intermediate format translations.

And, it exists already an ili2gpkg Package: http://www.eisenhutinformatik.ch/interlis/ili2pg/ for easier Interlis 2 importation.

[Anonymous]

I'd like to mention that the GeoPackage (vector and raster) "desktop exchangeformat" is also supported by ArcGIS.

[SHNGXUM7PX]

Has there been any development on this front? Similar requests have been made after this one and GeoPackage is an open format supported by both ArcGIS and QGIS. Shapefiles are the current industry standard but it has numerous associated problems (this site lists most of its limitations: http://switchfromshapefile.org/) so we are looking for an alternative.

[Koesti]

Hi, GeoPackages are implemented with Map 3D 2025 as FDO connection.