[mapserver-users] Mapserver and GDB files

[Paul Ramsey]

Anyone have a small piece of data in the new-fangled FGDB file format
they are willing to send me?

P

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Dave Fuhry <dfuhry at gmail.com> wrote:
> That, and the sudden syntax changes, all to SQL compliance:
> delimit fields with "field", not [field]
> wildcards _ and %, not ? and *
> UPPER and LOWER, not UCASE and LCASE
>
> and newly supported SQL clauses which ESRI is doubtful to have gone to
> extra lengths to implement:
> SELECT DISTINCT
> GROUP BY, ORDER BY
> Correlated sub-queries
> Select list expressions
>
> Trivial for a full-fledged db, but atypical for a single-file
> persistence & query system.
>
> -Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>> 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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