[gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support

[Duarte Carreira]

Matt, the only reason I have seen presented for some reluctance in pushing spatialite as a de facto standard following shapefile's success, is not having a foothold in the closed source sector. That's the only thing ESRI's fgdb could potentially offer, since the extra data types supported will not be available outside ESRI's software (Terrain, Topology, Networks, etc.).

(As for interoperability with ESRI, its users can always export to shapefile. Ofcourse I would prefer to directly read fgdb data but if not possible it's ok too.)

So the question is: is it true that for a new "universal" spatial format to be born it has to have at least read support in the closed source world?

Duarte


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De: Matt Wilkie [mailto:maphew at gmail.com]
Enviada: terça-feira, 15 de Junho de 2010 22:52
Para: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Assunto: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support


I think discussing a shapefile successor, or even perhaps a code sprint, is a
very good topic for FOSS4G. This same thread that we're weaving now is/has
happened on a number mailing lists and usually generated dozens of responses
each time. The interest is clear. From my vantage the germinating seed
crystal could be spatialite, but there seems to be some general reluctance
to jump on board. I'm ignorant of the reasons for that, perhaps that will
come out at FOSS4G; wish I could be there!

Ivan: I personally welcome and will use a gdal/ogr that uses the currently
installed arcgis libraries however for the health of the industry I'd like
to see unencumbered access. Thanks for letting me know at least part of my
ramblings are of interest

cheers,

-matt
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