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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Hello. I've been following this discussion with much interest.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Spatialite really does standout to me as the "mostly done" format... as to ESRI interoperability, it will be easy to make a small tool/model for ESRI users that runs OGR in the background, so a simple checkout-checkin
process can be achieved without much effort. If no one else builds it, I can make time for that. On the other hand it doesn't seem healthy to me that an OS GIS format should be tossed just because ESRI doesn't read it yet. It will if the format takes off the
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>De:</b> Doug_Newcomb@fws.gov [Doug_Newcomb@fws.gov]<br>
<b>Enviado:</b> segunda-feira, 19 de Outubro de 2009 13:59<br>
<b>Para:</b> Chris Barker<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org; gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Assunto:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles<br>
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<p>I'm confused, I thought spatialite support was being added to ogr in 1.7 . <a href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html" target="_blank">
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html</a><br>
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As to ESRI, I asked at the last DOI meeting prior to the ESRI conference this year about spatialite support and they said they had no plans to support it. Of course, they used to say the same thing about postgresql/postgis and if spatialite is implimented in
ogr it will probably be included down the road. <br>
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<tt>Simon Greener wrote:<br>
> What else is there to do for its adoption as the new shapefile for the <br>
> open source community?<br>
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I heard someone say once that a specification isn't a standard unless <br>
there is more than one implementation (preferably more). Is there any <br>
other way to read or write a spatialite file than sqlite itself?<br>
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It's also not a standard without a specification -- is there one (other <br>
than the source code, which, of course is the only truly accurate <br>
specification).<br>
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Also -- do ESRI tools read or write it? Like it or not, they are the <br>
elephant in the room. My ESRI-using colleagues want to distribute data <br>
in the ESRI geodatabase format -- I don't like that, as I don't use ESRI <br>
tools, but I can't suggest an alternative that won't work for them.<br>
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Sigh.<br>
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-Chris<br>
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