[OSGeo Africa] Data interchange between opensource GIS and ArcGIS

[Hanlie Pretorius]

Thanks.

I was just thinking that handing them a package similar to a file
geodatabase with the spatial data and perhaps tables as well in one
place would be preferable to a bunch of shapefiles and spreadsheets.

Hanlie

> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 08:40:12 +0200
> From: "E. Ndava" <erick.ndava at gmail.com>
> To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Data interchange between opensource GIS
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> Hi Hanlie
>
> Whatever format you use I perceive "The Organisation" will have to import
> the data you generate into their (geo)databases. So
>
> 1. In spite of the fact that "The Organisation" is using SDE, and if you
> have nothing against using shapefiles, you can still capture your data in
> Shapefile format. The organisation will then just import that appropriately
> into their 'store'.
>
> 2. or you could create a PostGIS database (using OpenGeo Suite for instance
> http://boundlessgeo.com/solutions/opengeo-suite/ ), capture the data using
> QGIS. To get to your data 'The Organisation' will have to connect to your
> PostGIS instance. I understand ArcGIS 10.x supports reading from PostGIS,
> in that manner 'The Organisation' can connect to your PostGIS and export/
> import to their SDE.  If ArcGIS 9.x is in use then 'free' extensions like
> ST-*Links* SpatialKit (www.st-*links*.com) can be used to access the data
> still.
>
> Additionally from the PostGIS database you have the choice to export to
> various formats.
>
> Regards
>
> Erick
>