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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ragi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>That is a good point, as always. Unfortunately I am not able to
do that, but I can help in any other way…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>The zigGIS driver (I think ) is for reading/writing PostGIS using
ArcMap, without having ArcSDE in the middle. As far as I know it does not read
File geodatabases… I think for now you would have to reverse engineer the
way fgdb’s are written… given the effort, the discussion on whether
to invest the time on fgbd or invest it on SL is at least interesting… and
even fun for some of us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Duarte<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ragi Burhum
[mailto:ragi@burhum.com] <br>
<b>Enviada:</b> quinta-feira, 17 de Junho de 2010 21:57<br>
<b>Para:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Duarte Carreira; Eric Wolf; Peter J Halls; Matt Wilkie<br>
<b>Assunto:</b> RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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>
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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>
<br>
If SL would:<br>
<br>
<br>
1) Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop
and webgis<br>
<br>
2) Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through
desktop tools like QGIS<br>
<br>
3) Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only)<br>
<br>
4) Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take
advantage of Spatial SQL, all other functionality)<br>
<br>
5) Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al.<br>
<br>
6) Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file,
through QGIS<br>
<br>
7) ??more ideas/requests??<br>
<br>
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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Or even better, instead of waiting and complaining, we could
just write a GeoDatabase OGR (ESRI) Workspace ourselves. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>There are already examples of working ones out there <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/">http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So instead of hoping and pleading for support, someone
should just sit down and write it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>- Ragi<o:p></o:p></p>
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