[gdal-dev] ESRI file geodatabase support

[Stefan Keller]

Hi all

At ESRI Developer Summit, March 22–25, 2010, Palm Springs, CA, they
talked about the ArcGIS 10 to be expected in June 2010.
But somebody (http://tinyurl.com/34nk558, 19. April 2010, german) said
that the opening of the API (C++ only) won't make it into this
release.

But since this is a storage format I question what this will be good
for? I'm after an exchange format which is better than Shapefiles!

Yours, S.

P.S. Off topic proposal: It would be perhaps interesting to talk about
a new GIS format at FOSS4G2010? There will be a presentation
"SpatiaLite, the Shapefile of the future?" (the argumentats for it are
already layed out here, unfortunately in german:
http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2010/events/127.de.html )


2010/6/14 Peter J Halls <P.Halls at york.ac.uk>:
> Matt,
>
>   although we were told at the time that the EMEA 2008 Proceedings would be
> put online, I've yet to see them or hear of the result - I was a speaker and
> submitted my materials on time and as requested and that seems to have been
> the end of the story.
>
> Peter
>
> Matt Wilkie wrote:
>>
>> The earliest reference I found to a "promise" of an open specification for
>> file-gdb was ESRI UC 2006, with discussion where of a forthcoming public
>> specification mentioned as far back as ArcGIS 8.3.
>>
>> In many discussions people seem to use the terms open API and open file
>> format specifications interchangeably. ESRI itself seems to be pretty
>> clearly sticking to API-only line though, from the 2007 UC:
>>
>> "While ESRI would ideally like to open the file geodatabase format in a
>> manner similar to what we did for shapefiles when we released ArcView 2,
>> geodatabases are complex and can be easily corrupted outside the ArcGIS
>> environment. Instead, we plan to engineer a high performing and well
>> documented API that developers can freely embed in custom applications and
>> that will read and write file geodatabase datasets. This will be released
>> after ArcGIS 9.3." -- http://bit.ly/esri-uc-qa-2007
>>
>> If you've a reference for talk of the file fromat spec though I'd love to
>> see it. Searching for (EMEA) User Conference 2008 shows a few announcements
>> for the event but no proceedings or blog reports; I'm likely not using the
>> right keywords.
>>
>> I also echo the request for people attending *any* ESRI conferences to ask
>> about both a public file format specifcation and programming API to the file
>> geodatabase.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> matt wilkie
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>
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