[mapserver-users] Mapserver and GDB files

[Dave Fuhry]

Does anybody know if the .gdb format is SQLite-based?  I remember
hearing rumors that ESRI's next geodatabase file format was to be.
I'm unable to find anything confirming or denying this online.

I read http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/pug07/papers/workshops/file-gdb.pdf
as giving strong indications that it is.

-Dave


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> Write an ArcGIS script to do all the work :) ArcGIS can export to
> Shape file and can read lyr files.
>
> Heck: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12766
>
> P.
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Raivo Alla <snaperski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you all very much for answers.
>> I am working on a project, where all data is in .gdb files and styles in
>> ArcGIS .lyr format.
>> I guess both - getting .gdb and .lyr files working in mapserver environment
>> - are at the moment not possible?
>> So I must convert convert .gdb files (using FME maybe?) to some readable
>> format like shapefiles (if possible) and
>> just type manually mapserver symbology files... uhh.
>>
>>
>> Raivo
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fawcett, David wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> .gdb files are ESRI's new File Geodatabase proprietary format.  I am
>>>>> quite sure that OGR/FWTools does not support it.
>>>>
>>>> David,
>>>>
>>>> Ah thanks.  Indeed they are not supported and it is hard to imagine they
>>>> will be supported for a while.  ESRI has indicated in the past that they
>>>> intend to provide an open mechanism to access the file geodatabase and
>>>> that
>>>> is still likely to happen at some point.  However, I think this would be
>>>> quite a few months away at best.
>>>
>>> Hmmm, and if ESRI provides it, then, like SDE, it probably won't be
>>> available for OSX (or other linux platforms?).  Bleh.
>>>
>>> -----
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>>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>>
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>>>
>>> - Marvin
>>>
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