[postgis-users] Re: postgis-users Digest, Vol 52, Issue 9

[Tim Bowden]

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 18:55 -0800, Ragi Y. Burhum wrote:
> On 2/11/07, Frank Koormann <frank.koormann at intevation.de> wrote:
>         * Ragi Y. Burhum <ragi at burhum.com> [070210 08:01]:
>         > > >
>         > > > ZigGis 1.1 available!
>         > > >
>         > >
>         [7]http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2006-December/014217.html 
>         > > > HTH,
>         > > >
>         > > >         Frank Koormann
>         > > >
>         > >
>         > > It's still alive! Looks more promising.  Thanks
>         Frank.  It's a read only
>         > > job for now, but still useful. 
>         
>         >    As far as commercial products, you can use the Data
>         Interoperability
>         >    Extension
>         >    [8]http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/datainteroperability/index.html
>         >    for Read/Write. 
>         
>         
>         Has anybody used this "Write" already or is it just a legend?
>         Looking at the "Data Interoperability" sheet [1] I find
>         columns for Direct Read, Data Import and Data Export. No
>         Direct Write. 
>         
>         Regards,
>         
>                 Frank Koormann
>         
>         
>         [1]
>         http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/data-interop-formats.pdf
>         
>         --
>         Frank Koormann                             <
>         frank.koormann at intevation.de>
>         Professional Service around Free Software
>         (http://intevation.net/)
>         FreeGIS Project
>         ( http://freegis.org/)
>         PostGIS Support
>         (http://www.intevation.net/geospatial/postgis-support.en.html)
> 
> 
> I haven't personally used it for editing Postgis (I have for other
> datasources), however Safe's FME  (which are the libraries used by
> Data Interop Extension)
> http://www.esri.com/industries/electric/resources/data/safesoftware.html lists Postgis as read/write http://www.safe.com/products/fme/formats-supported/index.php . You may want to double check with FME and/or ESRI to see what's the story.
> 
> Hope this helps.
Thanks,

This is something we will have to look at.  It's a pity there's no
comparable OS option :-(

Regards,
Tim Bowden