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color:#1F497D'>Well, I’m sold. What you need to do it??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Duarte<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ragi Burhum
[mailto:ragi@burhum.com] <br>
<b>Enviada:</b> sexta-feira, 18 de Junho de 2010 16:31<br>
<b>Para:</b> Peter J Halls<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Duarte Carreira; gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org; Eric Wolf; Matt Wilkie<br>
<b>Assunto:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This is meant to be an
export/import type of thing. So you won't be able to "open" something
in ArcMap and start manipulating it live using the ArcMap/ArcCatalog tools. The
other approach I am proposing would be OGR as a seamless datasource that
integrates with ArcGIS at the data access layer level. It would be transparent
to the other tools.<br>
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- Ragi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Peter J Halls <<a
href="mailto:P.Halls@york.ac.uk">P.Halls@york.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>And ... I think I may have
found the file geodatabase documentation promised ... in the online
ArecGIS 10 documentation, Administrator Library, Architecture of a geodatabase,
Geodatabase XML. It would appear that, in addition to the XML Schema they
published several years ago, the XML documentation has been augmented with a view
to interoperability being achieved at the XML level. So, maybe no, they
have not published the binary structure but they may have published enough to
enable XML exchange. I've not read all the material - and I would need to
think about much of it before I understood it. Whether there is enough
there I cannot say ... I was looking at<br>
<a href="http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html"
target="_blank">http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Best wishes,<br>
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Peter<o:p></o:p></p>
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