[postgis-users] ArcGIS connection with PostGIS

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi Jan,

possibly you could join in on the efforts of the PgArc project:

http://pgarc.sourceforge.net/

Best regards,
Bart

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:41:41 +0200, Jan Boonen <janb at gis.zmg.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are a company that is creating a GIS for geologic purposes using
> open-source software solutions. Currently we have a PostgreSQL database
> running with the PostGIS extension. In order to view and edit spatial 
> data
> we use ArcGIS from ESRI.
>
> It appears however that connecting to a PostGIS table with ArcGIS is 
> quite
> difficult.
>
> The current option for us is to develop a new extension to ArcGIS so that
> the PostGIS possibilities become available, but this is a daunting task 
> so
> we would like to check beforehand if some efforts have been made 
> recently on
> this issue appearing regularly on several opensource GIS forums. It is 
> most
> likely that we are going to use Delphi as primary development language 
> and
> where needed we will use Visual C++. For PostgreSQL connectivity we are
> probably going to use ODBC or native Delphi components in combination 
> with
> the GDAL library of Frank Warmerdam. If there is somebody here that is 
> also
> working on such a project it might be interesting to get in contact and
> discuss the development process. For everybody who is also interested in
> such an application, please contact us so that we can see if we can meet
> your needs too.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jan Boonen
> Zoutewelle Media Groep b.v
> Department of software development
> The Netherlands
> E-mail: janb at zmg.nl
>
>
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