[postgis-users] Exporting to ESRI's ArcGIS

[P Kishor]

On 9/13/06, alex bodnaru <alexbodn at 012.net.il> wrote:
..
>
> i might be wrong, but if i remember correctly, mapserver may masquerade
> as imsserver.

Perhaps, but that is another complication, another layer to run.
Although Bruce's comments make it seem that it might be difficult,
even impossible, to make ArcGIS recognize PostGIS as a datasource, it
would be superbly fantastic if it were possible. As I said earlier,
existing ArcGIS shops would generally have no problem with where the
data are coming from, and that would allow PostGIS to infitrate and
exist in such environments. After a decade or so of being away from
ArcGIS, I have been using it once again for the past few months. The
backend stinks, but the frontend is actually pretty darn nice. That is
something the open source world would have to spend a lot of effort to
recreate, and it may simply not be worth doing so (well, it may be
worth doing so, however, you know what I mean...).

Hopefully, in time...



>
> P Kishor wrote:
> > On 9/13/06, Bruce Rindahl <rindahl at lrcwe.com> wrote:
> >
> >> There is an extension called pgarc that that has most of the
> >> functionality
> >> you might be looking for.  See:
> >> http://pgarc.sourceforge.net/
> >> I have taken the code and made some changes.  I ported it to the new code
> >> for 9.x.  It will load the extent of the display view and defines the
> >> projection for the resultant shapefile that is loaded on the local
> >> machine.
> >> It can write to a PostGIS database but the functionality is limited - I
> >> haven't really needed it.
> >> I have had limited success in contacting the authors of pgarc to see
> >> if they
> >> are interested in updating the project.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Well, if you have managed to make it work with ArcGIS 9.x, that is
> > indeed very sweet. Poking around in the pgarc website, I see that one
> > of the project managers is 'spatialguru' or Tyler Mitchell. I am
> > pretty sure he is on this list, if not, he is certainly on the
> > MapServer list. He will readily respond to any queries/offers to help.
> >
> > Unfortunately I know nothing about coding ArcGIS, so I am only a very
> > keen and eager user of such a utility.
> >
> > That said, it seems to extend ArcGIS -- I would much rather prefer to
> > extend PostGIS so it emulates (something like imsemu) an ArcGIS
> > compatible dsn. That way, an existing ArcGIS installation need not be
> > disturbed, but can happily use PostGIS data, and PostGIS gets a really
> > nice, albeit neither free nor open source, viewer for its data. Great
> > for existing ArcGIS shops that might want to incorporate PostGIS for
> > backend data management instead of putting up with SDE (I know of one
> > such shop personally).
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> >> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of P
> >> Kishor
> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:25 PM
> >> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> >> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Exporting to ESRI's ArcGIS
> >>
> >> Sorry, no help here (am curious about this meself), but I have a
> >> related question -- anyone figured out how to view PostGIS data in
> >> ArcGIS?
> >>
> >> On 9/13/06, Michael de Armas (Micotan) <michael.dearmas at micotan.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, for the suggestion.
> >> >
> >> > Is that the only way? Let's say that, for some reasons, I cannot
> >> install
> >> > PostGIS in the PC where the app will run and/or I don't want to call an
> >> > external program to do the job.
> >> >
> >> > I was thinking something like saving the geometry to a GML file, but I
> >> don't
> >> > know if ESRI could read the GML that PostGIS generates.
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