[mapserver-users] connecting to ArcSDE postgis

[Richard Greenwood]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Mark Volz <MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just want to check now that ArcSDE can use PostGIS can Mapserver directly
> connect to the database using the postgis connection, or does it still need
> to use the SDE connection?

ESRI's documentation indicates that you can store spatial objects in
either PostGIS format or in SDE format. If you store your spatial data
in PostGIS format then MapServer will be able to read them w/o SDE.
Also note that Postgres 8.3 is the only version currently supported by
SDE.

Regards,
-- 
Richard Greenwood
richard.greenwood at gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com