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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Bruce<br>
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I've done fairly extensive research as this is a very common
situation. The landscape is quite fluid though.<br>
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There are a few third party extensions out there but I haven't had
much luck with them in a read-write production environment. <br>
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Native read support of PostGIS from ArcGIS desktop has been
available for a few versions now. The clincher is write support.
For that you need to pay up and as a minimum get ArcGIS Editor
(now called Standard). ArcGIS ArcView (now called Basic) won't get
you write access. And you can't get around it with WFS-T either. <br>
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So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database
connection or WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or
Enterprise ('ArcInfo') or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native
PostGIS geometry).<br>
<br>
Gavin<br>
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On 11/07/2014 06:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector
spatial data source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?</div>
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<div>I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being
able to create, update and delete spatial data managed within a
PostGIS environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle
wear.</div>
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<div>Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that
you’ve had from implementation to operational use?</div>
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<div>We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop
and open source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.</div>
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<div>Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I’d
like to move our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and
consolidate our vector spatial database environment on Postgres
/ PostGIS.</div>
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<div>Bruce</div>
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