[Gdal-dev] ESRI ArcSDE OGR driver

[Frank Warmerdam]

cemehehko wrote:
> Hello gdal-dev,
> 
> What about OGR driver to read/write from/into ArcGis SDE with
> ArcSDE developer API? My SDE instance is over Oracle but I think that
> this is not the best idea to use OGR/OCI driver. I not found table
> ALL_SDO_GEOM_METADATA. I use Oracle Spatial to store my geometries in
> SDE setup files for speed and convineince .
> But ArcSDE can store no only over Oracle DBMS (M$ SQL, IBM, etc).
> ArcSDE can also store geometries in BLOBs with WKB inside. There why I
> want to use "native" ArcSDE API to process SDE layers.

Cemehehko,

GDAL/OGR 1.3.2 includes a read-only SDE driver using the SDE C API.  So
to build this driver you need to have a copy of the SDE C API developer
kit from ESRI.  This driver could be extended to read/write support, but
that was not a priority for the client who drove this work (Delorme), so
it wasn't pursued.

Best regards,
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