This is meant to be an export/import type of thing. So you won't be able to "open" something in ArcMap and start manipulating it live using the ArcMap/ArcCatalog tools. The other approach I am proposing would be OGR as a seamless datasource that integrates with ArcGIS at the data access layer level. It would be transparent to the other tools.<br>
<br>- Ragi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Peter J Halls <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Halls@york.ac.uk">P.Halls@york.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">And ... I think I may have found the file geodatabase documentation promised ... in the online ArecGIS 10 documentation, Administrator Library, Architecture of a geodatabase, Geodatabase XML. It would appear that, in addition to the XML Schema they published several years ago, the XML documentation has been augmented with a view to interoperability being achieved at the XML level. So, maybe no, they have not published the binary structure but they may have published enough to enable XML exchange. I've not read all the material - and I would need to think about much of it before I understood it. Whether there is enough there I cannot say ... I was looking at<br>
<a href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html" target="_blank">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html</a><br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Peter<br>
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