[Qgis-user] Using QGIS with ArcGIS

[Alex Mandel]

On 07/03/2012 04:41 AM, Viktor Kalén wrote:
> Hello Vincent,
> 
> We have a well established ESRI environment for our desktop tasks, and
> a farily new Open Source environment for WebGIS. This means that we
> have the same data stored twice, both as ESRI FileGeodatabases and in
> PostGIS.
> 
> We use FME to push data from ESRI --> PostGIS. Then we use QGIS for
> direct editing and QC of the data in PostGIS. We have some data
> collection over the web, storing data in PostGIS. Editing and QC this
> data is the main task where we use QGIS.
> 
> Of course the best way would have been to store everything in just
> one place (PostGIS), hopefully we will go there in the future when
> ESRI handles PostGIS as god as QGIS does today. I have tried some 3:rd
> party plugins to read end editing PostGIS data in ArcGIS. But they
> where not as stable as QGIS. However, FME offers a stable converter
> between the to environments!
> 
> We use: QGIS 1.8, ArcGIS 10.1 (just upgraded), FME 2012 and Postgres
> 8.4 with PostGIS.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Viktor Kalén
> 
> 2012/7/2 Vincent Picavet <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for some user feedback from people using ArcGIS and QGIS
>> together. Particularly if you are using it with a native PostGIS backend.
>>
>> Questions I am interested in :
>> * What is your actual setup ?
>> (QGIS - WFST - ArcGIS, QGIS - ArcSDE, QGIS - PostGIS - ArcGIS, ...)
>> * What data size do you handle ?
>> * How does it behave performance-wise ?
>> * What specific features of QGIS and / or ArcGIS do you use and why ?
>>
>> Any pointers to online reports on the matter welcome.
>> I'll try to gather and share the answers I get if allowed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vincent

I successfully tested but not implemented for daily work ArcSDE
databases that store natively as Postgis. Server can be Windows or Linux
but Linux is much easier to setup and maintain the ArcSDE part.

Enjoy,
Alex