[OSGeo Africa] Africa Digest, Vol 81, Issue 19
Gerhard Brits
BritsJG at eskom.co.za
Thu Oct 24 06:50:31 PDT 2013
Hi Hanlie
>From my experience with arc even in 10.1. The connection to Postgres is very cumbersome. I would suggest that you use a postures DB with ArcSDE standard package. Then publish your data as web service to WFS or WCS. Using this method you can edit data with arc and QGIS and use one database. It is a bit of an administrative task to setup everything, but it work absolutely fantastic.
The ST-LINK thing I have never got to work.
FYI, a web service(any tyipe) in QGIS is much faster than in Arc!!!
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Data interchange between opensource GIS and ArcGIS
(Hanlie Pretorius)
2. Re: Data interchange between opensource GIS and ArcGIS
(Gavin Fleming)
3. Re: Data interchange between opensource GIS and ArcGIS
(Tim Sutton)
4. QGIS Interview on FLOSS weekly (Tim Sutton)
5. Linux distributions - recommendations? (Charles Rethman)
6. Re: Linux distributions - recommendations? (Gavin Fleming)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:29:27 +1300
From: Hanlie Pretorius <hanlie.pretorius at gmail.com>
To: africa at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Data interchange between opensource GIS
and ArcGIS
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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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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 22:47:26 +0200
From: Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>
To: africa at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Data interchange between opensource GIS
and ArcGIS
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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
>> Message-ID:
>> <CALcEFLx+2tJon8T9RjiRRBtOw+dMx59WMkdNzVXYmRa0CBxcTw at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> 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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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:36:40 +0700
From: Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.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
You can also use File Geodatabases from QGIS (basically any supported
GDAL/OGR format):
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html
and read only personal geodatabases:
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html
Though Gavin's suggestion is better since its an open format.
Regards
Tim
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Gavin Fleming <gavinjfleming at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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/<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
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <CALcEFLx+2tJon8T9RjiRRBtOw+**dMx59WMkdNzVXYmRa0CBxcTw at mail.**
>>> gmail.com<CALcEFLx%2B2tJon8T9RjiRRBtOw%2BdMx59WMkdNzVXYmRa0CBxcTw at mail.gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> 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/<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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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:38:48 +0700
From: Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>
To: Africa local chapter discussions <africa at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [OSGeo Africa] QGIS Interview on FLOSS weekly
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Hi All
If anyone is interested, I did an interview about QGIS on FLOSS Weekly last
night:
http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/270
There is an audio only version on that page too (look on the left of the
page they list a bunch of different formats).
Regards
Tim
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:44:29 +0200
From: Charles Rethman <rethman at me.com>
To: "africa at lists.osgeo.org Open Source Geo Discussion Group"
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Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Linux distributions - recommendations?
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Hello all,
Which Linux distribution is generally recommended for placing on a Mac partition? Ubuntu, Mint or any other? Its my first Linux installation so ease of use counts and it should work well with a Macbook touch pad and Mac gestures. I would prefer not to use a virtual machine but I would like to be able to read the Macintosh partition from the Linux one so I don't have to keep and sync copies of files that I'm working on with QGIS and other packages under Mac.
I know this is veering somewhat off-topic but the reason for my trying out Linux is to be able to a richer experience with OS geo-software... Thanks.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:12:28 +0200
From: Gavin Fleming <gavin at afrispatial.co.za>
To: africa at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Linux distributions - recommendations?
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Hi Charles
Ubuntu definitely works. It also has the best geospatial support. Any
distro that supports EFI boot should work (Mint doesn't).
make space with your Mac disk utilities
Install rEFInd (EFI boot manager)
Install ext4 driver in rEFInd
Install Ubuntu. Don't install grub (you'll be using EFI instead).
Disclaimer: The above are the basic steps - Google to find a good guide!
Gavin
On 24/10/2013 10:44, Charles Rethman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Which Linux distribution is generally recommended for placing on a Mac partition? Ubuntu, Mint or any other? Its my first Linux installation so ease of use counts and it should work well with a Macbook touch pad and Mac gestures. I would prefer not to use a virtual machine but I would like to be able to read the Macintosh partition from the Linux one so I don't have to keep and sync copies of files that I'm working on with QGIS and other packages under Mac.
>
> I know this is veering somewhat off-topic but the reason for my trying out Linux is to be able to a richer experience with OS geo-software... Thanks.
>
>
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