[gdal-dev] gdal in ESRI products

[Frank Warmerdam]

Richard Greenwood wrote:
> Thanks Ivan and Sophia. So ESRI is using GDAL/OGR for some raster
> formats, any idea about vector use? And does anyone know if ESRI has
> contributed code or money to GDAL?

Richard,

I'm not aware of any use within ESRI of GDAL/OGR vector support.

ESRI is currently one of my major clients, and have funded quite a few
improvements and bug fixes through me for GDAL over the last three years
or so.  They also co-sponsored the bigtiff upgrade for libtiff.

Best regards,
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