[GRASS-user] About .mdb geo-data base file format... please some information about alternative file formats!

[Benjamin Ducke]

>>
>> I do think the agencies reasoning is not *too* off.  They provide shapefiles
>> which are widely accessable but also .mdb files due to the lossiness of
>> shapefiles.  A good solution would be to provide the data in GML format
>> which can avoid the lossiness of shapefiles and they seem to be moving
>> in that direction.  We just need to provide gentle encouragement.  The
>> telling point is that the .mdb files are essentially inaccessable outside
>> an ArcGIS environment.

Plus it seems that ESRI is moving away from .mdb files for reasons of
performance and the ridiculous file size limit of 2GB. The next
version of ArcGIS should already have an entirely proprietary
spatial database format, so MS Access-based storage will go down the
Avenue way ...

I believe this sort of unsteadiness is also a major concern with
proprietary solutions.

Benjamin

>>
>> Best regards,
> 
> I am learning ;-) ...and I like it!
> 
> Thank you all,
> 
> Nikos
> 
> 
> P.S. I suppose no "rough summary" of all this issues exists. Or does
> it? 
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Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
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