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Conisdering adding Geospatial source input

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Description

Thinking out loud here, adding support geospatial sources could be nice.
On top of my mind, allow imports from Shapefiles, Spatialites, KML, Oracle, MySQL

Shapefile components are basically:
.shp - The geometry store
.shx - The geometry index
.dbf - The dBASE file that stores the attributes

That said, there already are tools for this (shp2pgqsl, ogr2ogr) so the effort
might not be worth it. Though might be fun to pit them against pgloader and
see who's faster ^-^ Definitely low priority.

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The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Begin by mapping how pgloader currently accepts source types, then assess Shapefiles, SpatiaLite, KML, Oracle, and MySQL imports against the existing tools mentioned. Done would require a defined scope and acceptance criteria before implementation can begin.

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Assessment

Tech stack
mysql, postgresql
Domain
databases
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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