[OSGeo Africa] Data interchange between opensource GIS and ArcGIS

[Gavin Fleming]

spatialite sounds like your answer if they have ArcGIS 10.2, which now 
has spatialite support [1]

[1] http://blog.geomusings.com/2013/08/07/spatialite-and-arcgis-10-dot-2/

On 23/10/2013 21:29, Hanlie Pretorius wrote:
> 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
>> 	and	ArcGIS
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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
>>
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