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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Bruce,<br>
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Not sure if this is interesting or not. In my previous role, my
team & I worked on adding ArcGIS support for Ingres, which is
also open source and similar to Postgres/PostGIS. I learned quite
a bit during the process. I appreciated that Esri offers a very
useful layer to plugin & extend ArcMap/ArcCatalog, etc. You
can code in Python, .NET, or Java.<br>
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Despite being warned by many that we were crazy to even try to do
this, after investing to grok Esri's architecture, we got it done
in only a few months. The end result was pretty good... full
read/write and most major features worked well. It didn't require
ArcSDE.<br>
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This wasn't every single feature of course. For example, we
didn't do long transaction support as it wasn't that urgent for
our customer at the time & was going to be a lot of work. From
what I understand from the outside, the team has nudged it along
over the years fixing up bugs and edge cases we didn't consider in
the first release.<br>
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At the time, we took a brief look to understand the landscape and
there seemed to be some fairly significant limitations in ArcGIS
support for PostGIS. I'm not sure if that's changed since then as
it has been a couple of years.<br>
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The team has disbanded since, but if there were interest in
engaging any of them, I'd be happy to make introductions. I also
know of companies that do work in this space.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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On 11/07/14 00:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector
spatial data source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?</div>
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<div>I’m particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being
able to create, update and delete spatial data managed within a
PostGIS environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle
wear.</div>
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<div>Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that
you’ve had from implementation to operational use?</div>
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<div>We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop
and open source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.</div>
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<div>Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I’d
like to move our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and
consolidate our vector spatial database environment on Postgres
/ PostGIS.</div>
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<div>Bruce</div>
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