[postgis-users] Arc integration

[Abe Gillespie]

In my opinion PostGIS is the OSS analog of ArcSDE.  Others would argue
that they are not the same sort of software.

I think PostGIS has the potential of supplanting ArcSDE. 
Unfortunately connecting PostGIS to the ESRI world is still not there
yet.  I've been doing work on a project to do just this.  Check it
out:

http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/projects/ziggis/

It's still got a ways to go, but I can read / display / query PostGIS
layers completely in my development setup.  I'm working hard to get an
easily installable version of this but I probably still need about 1
or 2 months more of work for the read-only version.  There are plans
to have a writable version, but that's pretty far out of immediate
reach.

-Abe

On 11/9/05, Alex Allen-Turl <aallenturl at ems-sep.com> wrote:
> Hey Kids,
> My name is Alex and I am the IT Manager for an environmental company in
> Florida, and I've been charged with the task of trying to get our
> software to run faster.
>
> According to ESRI the thing that would really help is ArcSDE which is
> $10,000+, but I also noticed PostGIS name pop up as an alternative.
>
> My questions are :
> 1. Is there still an incompatibility between Arc DIE and PostGIS 1.x?
> 2. Are there any good resources or arguments for using PostGIS instead
> of ArcSDE or is this an invalid argument because they are two completely
> different pieces of software
>
> Anyone that could help, I'd appreciate greatly.
>
> Cheers
>
> -Alex
>
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