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<DIV><SPAN class=140104914-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Darren,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140104914-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I just
downloaded pgarc the other day and was going to play with it some, but got lost
in other things. I am VERY interested in helping with this project - either by
giving you input into future developments or by actual coding where applicable.
I do a good bit of VB, but have heretofore been intimidated by the ArcGIS object
model. I think that going through your code will help me with
that.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=140104914-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Our
"ideal" would be an extension to ArcMap to would allow use to view / edit /
analyze postgis data directly from the database. I am familiar with creating
temp shapefiles, and that is workable, but less than ideal. I dont know how
pgarc is currently doing all of this.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140104914-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Do you
have more specific questions? We are involved with GIS at the local, state, and
federal level. We do redistricting, custom mapping, oil and gas data management,
parcel mapping, just about all of it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140104914-29082003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>And -
we developed a "Poor Man's SDE" based on the OGIS Simple Feature Specs in Access
/ SQL Server that we pulled data from and wrote data to arcview with avenue
/ vb. Thats why I am familiar with the idea of temp shapefiles. Its just alot of
management...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Lowther</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Software Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>GEO Information
Systems</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>University of Oklahoma</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>dlowther@ou.edu</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>(405) 325-3131</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.geo.ou.edu/" target=_blank>http://www.geo.ou.edu</A></FONT>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Darren Houston
[mailto:darren.houston@edu.sait.ca] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 28, 2003
6:53 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'PostGIS Users Discussion '<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[postgis-users] PostgreSQL/PostGIS Microsoft Windows Users
Question<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Hello all.</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>I am involved with an open source project called PgArc located
at <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgarc/"
target=_blank>http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgarc/</A> . The purpose of the
project is to allow ESRIs ArcMap (v8.x) product to access Open Source
Postgresql/PostGIS spatial data tables. To help out this effort, I would like
to ask this question;</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>All Microsoft Windows GIS users using PostgreSQL/PostGIS, will
you e-mail me some information about how you use PostgreSQL/PostGIS? If we can
get some information on Windows usage, it will help us steer our project in
the right direction.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Thank you for any response,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>Darren H.</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>