[postgis-users] ArcGIS Mobile slightly off-topic question

[Tyler Erickson]

I would suggest looking for an ESRI document entitled "ArcGIS 9 -
Writing Geoprocessing Scripts with ArcGIS".  It is about an 80 page
document that gives examples of using python to work with ESRI's
geoprocessor object.  If I remember correctly, I originally downloaded
it as a PDF from ESRI's site, but now I just have the hardcopy.

- Tyler


Paragon Corporation wrote:
> Sorry if my terminology is off here.
>
> In one of the projects I'm working on,  we are sending out surveyors into
> the field with Mobile ArcPad devices (I think using ArcGIS 9.3 ArcPad
> Mobile) equiped with cameras (I forget the  exact device - I think its
> called Trimble or something like that, but don't hold me to that)  -  I'll
> have to double-check on that if its important to know.
>
> Anyrate steps ideally 
>
> 1) I dump out the data to geodatabase format which is required by the arcpad
> synch thing.  I was hoping to use OGR2OGR for this, but the OGR driver only
> has read capability for ESRI Personal geodatabase format, not write
> capability and evidentally ArcPad Mobile can only deal with personal
> geodatabase format (or do they have that new sql server express format too
> (adf or whatever the extension is? I forget since this was started in 9.2
> before I think that format was supported).
>
> So right now I am dumping to esri shape which is loaded into an ArcGIS
> personal database using Arc whatever in steps that are a little less than
> brain-dead.  Luckily I think this only needs to be done once or twice a week
> as opposed to step 2 which probably will need to be done daily.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this.  Supposedly ArcGIS has python libraries for
> reading and I think writing to Perosnal GeoDatabase which sound like they
> can pull this off, but never used those and I'm pretty green as far as
> Python goes though I'm quite happy to brush up my python skills.
>
> Any chance anyone has used any of these python libraries and has some code
> they wouldn't mind sharing or has other ideas for doing this.
>
> 2) When the data comes back from the field, this gets synched up using
> ArcPad or is it ArcCatalog (Arc whatever) I think - pictures are dumped into
> a folder which I think I can  happily pick up, data is dumped into a geo
> database which I think I can happily read and reimport back in to their
> inventory database.
>
> Thanks,
> Regina
>
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Tyler A. Erickson, Ph.D.
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Michigan Technological University
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