[mapserver-users] Mapserver and GDB files

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Tue Sep 23 15:42:00 EDT 2008


Not sure what you're seeing that screams "SQLLite", but I found this
line on the final "Post 8.2" slide regarding access options
interesting:

"Home grown open source spatial data API (e.g. GDAL, FDO)"

P.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Dave Fuhry <dfuhry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know if the .gdb format is SQLite-based?  I remember
> hearing rumors that ESRI's next geodatabase file format was to be.
> I'm unable to find anything confirming or denying this online.
>
> I read http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/pug07/papers/workshops/file-gdb.pdf
> as giving strong indications that it is.
>
> -Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>> Write an ArcGIS script to do all the work :) ArcGIS can export to
>> Shape file and can read lyr files.
>>
>> Heck: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12766
>>
>> P.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Raivo Alla <snaperski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thank you all very much for answers.
>>> I am working on a project, where all data is in .gdb files and styles in
>>> ArcGIS .lyr format.
>>> I guess both - getting .gdb and .lyr files working in mapserver environment
>>> - are at the moment not possible?
>>> So I must convert convert .gdb files (using FME maybe?) to some readable
>>> format like shapefiles (if possible) and
>>> just type manually mapserver symbology files... uhh.
>>>
>>>
>>> Raivo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Fawcett, David wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .gdb files are ESRI's new File Geodatabase proprietary format.  I am
>>>>>> quite sure that OGR/FWTools does not support it.
>>>>>
>>>>> David,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ah thanks.  Indeed they are not supported and it is hard to imagine they
>>>>> will be supported for a while.  ESRI has indicated in the past that they
>>>>> intend to provide an open mechanism to access the file geodatabase and
>>>>> that
>>>>> is still likely to happen at some point.  However, I think this would be
>>>>> quite a few months away at best.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, and if ESRI provides it, then, like SDE, it probably won't be
>>>> available for OSX (or other linux platforms?).  Bleh.
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>>>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>>>
>>>> "I ache, therefore I am.  Or in my case - I am, therefore I ache."
>>>>
>>>> - Marvin
>>>>
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