gpkg_validate: Validate a GeoPackage

In gpkg: Utilities for the Open Geospatial Consortium 'GeoPackage' Format

Validate a GeoPackage

Description

Checks for presence of required tables, valid values and other constraints.

Usage

gpkg_validate(x, diagnostics = FALSE)

Arguments

x	A geopackage object, or character path to GeoPackage
diagnostics	Return a list containing individual diagnostic test results (see Details)

Details

Several tests are run on the input GeoPackage, including:

• required_tables: logical. TRUE if gpkg_contents and gpkg_spatial_ref_sys tables exist

• has_contents: logical. TRUE if the number of rows in gpkg_contents table is greater than 0 and all tables listed in gpkg_contents are in the database

• has_spatial_tables: logical. TRUE if the number of tables in gpkg_contents with data_type "features" or "2d-gridded-coverage" is greater than 0

Value

logical. TRUE if valid. FALSE if one or more problems are found. For full diagnostics run with diagnostics = TRUE to return a list containing results for each test run on the input GeoPackage.

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