[gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support

[Jason Roberts]

Peter,

Although I have not seen the acknowledgement you mention, I have noticed
that ArcGIS 9.x appears to create SQLite databases in the user's temp
directory during certain operations. Perhaps they are just using it
internally to implement various processing.

Jason

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[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter J Halls
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:09 AM
To: Duarte Carreira
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org; Matt Wilkie; Ragi Burhum
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support

I happened to be looking at the ESRI ArcGIS 10 online documentation and
found a 
page of acknowledgements, which includes an acknowledgement reference to
SQLite. 
  I've no idea what to make of this - maybe someone else has?

Best wishes,

Peter

Duarte Carreira wrote:
> Ragi,
> 
> That is a good point, as always. Unfortunately I am not able to do that,
but I can help in any other way...
> 
> The zigGIS driver (I think ) is for reading/writing PostGIS using ArcMap,
without having ArcSDE in the middle. As far as I know it does not read File
geodatabases... I think for now you would have to reverse engineer the way
fgdb's are written... given the effort, the discussion on whether to invest
the time on fgbd or invest it on SL is at least interesting... and even fun
for some of us.
> 
> Duarte
> 
> De: Ragi Burhum [mailto:ragi at burhum.com]
> Enviada: quinta-feira, 17 de Junho de 2010 21:57
> Para: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Duarte Carreira; Eric Wolf; Peter J Halls; Matt Wilkie
> Assunto: RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support
> 
> From: Duarte Carreira <DCarreira at edia.pt<mailto:DCarreira at edia.pt>>
> Subject: RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support
> To: Eric Wolf <ebwolf at gmail.com<mailto:ebwolf at gmail.com>>, Peter J Halls
<P.Halls at york.ac.uk<mailto:P.Halls at york.ac.uk>>
> Cc: "gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>"
<gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>>,      Matt
Wilkie
>        <maphew at gmail.com<mailto:maphew at gmail.com>>
> 
> Well, if SpatiaLite offers some "proper" benefits and disseminates through
all of the FOSS world, then it may get a strong enough push even for ESRI to
pick it up. It happened before... (kml?)
> 
> If SL would:
> 
> 
> 1)      Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop and webgis
> 
> 2)      Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through desktop
tools like QGIS
> 
> 3)      Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only)
> 
> 4)      Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take advantage of
Spatial SQL, all other functionality)
> 
> 5)      Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al.
> 
> 6)      Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file, through QGIS
> 
> 7)      ??more ideas/requests??
> 
> Then it would be a very, very good contender... and the ball would be
kicked to "the other side".
> And it seems we're already there for some of the listed features.
> Duarte
> 
> Or even better, instead of waiting and complaining, we could just write a
GeoDatabase OGR (ESRI) Workspace ourselves.
> 
> There are already examples of working ones out there
> 
> http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/
> 
> So instead of hoping and pleading for support, someone should just sit
down and write it.
> 
> I started one at one point (C++), got side tracked with other things. If
anyone is interested in that source code, I would be happy to share that
too.
> 
> - Ragi
> 

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