[postgis-users] ArcMap Extension for PostGIS? Anyone?

[Paul Ramsey]

Theoretically, the whole ArcMap object model is exposed as COM objects, 
so one can extend them in C++ and register new data handlers into the 
system. In practice, noone knows. I have seen no proof that such radical 
extensions can be done, as no non-ESRI company has release a read/write 
layer for anything. The closest I have seen is an extension from Safe 
software which will create a readonly layer from an arbitrary input 
format which can then be saved out in ESRI formats.

P.

Christoph Spoerri wrote:
> I was interested in this as well. Do you have any information at all, on how 
> something like this could be done? Or what the obstacles are?
> 
> Christoph
> 
> On Monday 24 March 2003 10:54 pm, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
>>No news on our front. The price of our current success in conventional
>>consulting is that we have not had any time to putter around with side
>>projects around PostGIS. I wish we were spending all this time on
>>PostGIS consulting, but sadly t'is not the way things seem to be
>>incentivized.
>>
>>I have heard no particular good news about the possibility of doing
>>read/write extensions to ArcMap. No definitive denials that it is
>>possible either, though. So the possibility remains open.
>>
>>P.
>>
>>On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 12:59 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>>Howdy,
>>>I haven't seen this question for the past couple months but thought I'd
>>>ask.
>>>Has anyone been picking away at ArcMap extension for PostGIS?  Does it
>>>look
>>>difficult to do?
>>
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