<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">From: Duarte Carreira <<a href="mailto:DCarreira@edia.pt">DCarreira@edia.pt</a>><br>
Subject: RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support<br>
To: Eric Wolf <<a href="mailto:ebwolf@gmail.com">ebwolf@gmail.com</a>>, Peter J Halls <<a href="mailto:P.Halls@york.ac.uk">P.Halls@york.ac.uk</a>><br>
Cc: "<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, Matt Wilkie<br>
<<a href="mailto:maphew@gmail.com">maphew@gmail.com</a>><br><br>
Well, if SpatiaLite offers some "proper" benefits and disseminates through all of the FOSS world, then it may get a strong enough push even for ESRI to pick it up. It happened before... (kml?)<br>
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If SL would:<br>
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1) Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop and webgis<br>
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2) Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through desktop tools like QGIS<br>
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3) Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only)<br>
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4) Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take advantage of Spatial SQL, all other functionality)<br>
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5) Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al.<br>
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6) Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file, through QGIS<br>
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7) ??more ideas/requests??<br>
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Then it would be a very, very good contender... and the ball would be kicked to "the other side".<br>
And it seems we're already there for some of the listed features.<br>
Duarte<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or even better, instead of waiting and complaining, we could just write a GeoDatabase OGR (ESRI) Workspace ourselves. </div><div><br></div><div>There are already examples of working ones out there </div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/">http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/</a></div><div><br></div><div>So instead of hoping and pleading for support, someone should just sit down and write it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I started one at one point (C++), got side tracked with other things. If anyone is interested in that source code, I would be happy to share that too.</div><div><br></div><div>- Ragi</div></div>