[Mapserver-users] Can Mapserver interface with ESRI geodatabases?

[Mark Adams]

There is a basic distinction between "geodatabase" and "SDE". SDE
predates ESRI's introduction of the geodatabase with ArcGIS 8.x. So you
can have an SDE database that is not a geodatabase; that is, like
postgis, you can have tables with "shape" columns that the SDE
middleware interprets in a spatial display and analysis context. The
Geodatabase extends that basic concept, using a distinct set of
metatables to maintain information about the spatial objects in the
spatial (and non-spatial) tables, as well as the relationships between
them. Technically speaking, you can also have a geodatabase - the
"personal" geodatabase, which is an MS Access database - without SDE. (I
say technically, because even there you are using a set of SDE binaries
on the client, but you are bypassing the SDE server side install.)

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Mark Adams
Business & Systems Analyst
Cuesta Systems Inc.
5230 South Service Road
Burlington, ON L7L 5K2
Phone: 905-333-4544 x14
Fax: 905-333-0455
Email: markadams at cuestasys.com
 

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From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
[mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Lowell
Filak
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:43 PM
To: Bart van den Eijnden; Stephen Clark;
mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Can Mapserver interface with ESRI
geodatabases?

I'm confused.
The overview/sales book "Understanding Geodatabases - The esri method"
(or some such name) led me to believe that a geodatabase was read into a
product like arcims via arcsde and therefore changed/reduced the feature
types to basic types like points, lines, areas... & if mapserver is
built with sde support then.. ?
Or does the original question pertain to the "personal"geodatabase & the
jetengine/access thing?

Thanks.

Lowell

The following message was sent by Bart van den Eijnden
<bartvde at xs4all.nl> on Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:54:20 +0200.

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Short answer is NO.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:57:02 -0700, Stephen Clark
<stephen.clark at focus.ca> 
> wrote:
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> > Stephen
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