<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><font face="arial" size="2">Hi Stefan,</font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">I think QGIS users are more likely to seek interoperability with other syst</font><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">ems than ESRI users. So making ESRI work with QGIS via SpatialLite is proba</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">bly not something that offers ESRI users much benefit, they'll probably be </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">using ESRI file geodatabases instead.</span></div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">I believe QGIS will achieve more traction by working well with Arc,and seam</font><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">lessly within an Arc environment, than the other way
around. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">So while I have no problem with enhanced support for SpatiaLite for QGIS (& </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">Arc), this should not be at the expense of shapefile support.</span></div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">And for improved ESRI interoperability. given how ESRI provides (deliberate</font><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">ly?) such poorly performing OGC web service support that ESRI users tend to </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">use the ESRI restful services instead, is QGIS/GDAL support for ESRI's nat</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">ive web services at all likely?</span></div><div><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial" size="2">Brent</font></div><br><font face="arial" size="2">---
On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Wed, 11/28/12, Stefan Keller <i><sfkeller@gmail.com></i></b><font face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br>From: Stefan Keller <sfkeller@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go SpatiaLite !<br>To: pcreso@pcreso.com<br>Cc: qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br>Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 3:28 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1285118936">Hi Brent<div><br></div><div>Your point is very common and I understand this situation.</div><div>But the ArcGIS SW suite doesn't really make interoperability easy and tends to maintain a vendor lock-in.</div><div>My proposal is to break this deadlock by programming an free ArcGIS desktop extension which reads/writes Spatialite.</div>
<div>Any volunteers?</div><div><br></div><div>S.</div><div><br><div class="yiv1285118936gmail_quote">2012/11/27 <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pcreso@pcreso.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=pcreso@pcreso.com">pcreso@pcreso.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="yiv1285118936gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">As long as users have the choice, that's fine.<div><br></div><div>I'm working with organisations with a very significant Arc server based GIS infrastructure, & am encouraging QGIS as a client for staff desktop use. This is not an uncommon situation, & QGIS needs to be viable for such use, & at least Arc compatible, if not Arc friendly. SpatiaLite, despite all it's advantages, is inappropriate here.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Brent Wood<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 11/27/12, Noli Sicad <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:nsicad@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=nsicad@gmail.com">nsicad@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;">
<br>From: Noli Sicad <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:nsicad@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=nsicad@gmail.com">nsicad@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go SpatiaLite !<br>To: "haubourg" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr">regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr</a>><br>
Cc:
<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 11:10 AM<div><div class="yiv1285118936h5"><br><br><div>Spatialite 4.0.0 was released yesterday. Sandro will update the<br>
Spatialite QGIS data provider in the next few days to support<br>Spatialite 4.0.x.<br><br>Noli<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On 11/27/12, haubourg <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr">regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hey +1 for me! I answered in the old post on GeoJSON.<br>> You pointed exactly what's missing now !<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> View this message in context:<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Re-Get-rid-of-Shapefiles-Go-SpatiaLite-tp5018830p5018893.html">http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Re-Get-rid-of-Shapefiles-Go-SpatiaLite-tp5018830p5018893.html</a><br>
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