[postgis-users] Can ArcView view the maps stored in postGIStables?

[Obe, Regina]

Since no one has mentioned this one already, I thought I would throw it
out as food for thought.  It might not work in your case since it
requires some knowledge of php and UMN Mapserver (which I must add iruns
on pretty much any webserver you throw at it and not as painful to setup
as ArcIMS ArcGIS stuff.  So does PHP by the way).  I'm not quite sure if
it works with the newest mapserver (Mapserver 5.0) and PHP 5.

Refractions had developed an Arc IMS emulator a while back which makes a
UMN Mapserver service look like an Arc IMS service.  Haven't had a need
for it, but I suspect it would work well in your arcview viewer
especially if you are using the old ArcIMS stuff which it sounds like
you are.

http://mapserver.refractions.net/

So maybe take a look at that and perhaps Refractions can fill in on any
other details necessary.  The nice thing about that approach is you can
use the Arc IMS emulator for your old ESRI arcview clients, and the
built in WMS/WFS interface of UMN mapserver for OGC compliant viewers so
would serve both old and new.

Thanks,
Regina

 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
Christian Schwartze
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:04 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Can ArcView view the maps stored in
postGIStables?

I had some experiences with programming for ArcSDE using the SDK (Java).
There is also an API for ArcGIS that you can use. Maybe it is a possible
approach for your project like mine - because in connection with PL/Java
for Postgres I wrote stored procedures for retrieving data from ArcSDE.
I also suggest geotools and jts for java developing in spatial context.

Regards,
Christian.    

Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 20:31 -0800 schrieb
kreshna_iceheart at yahoo.com:
> Hi, I'm new in this mailing list and I'm still a
> newbie.
> 
> The organization I'm working for still stores their
> GIS maps in shape files (SHP). Recently, the number of
> SHP files had become unmanageable as the map grows.
> Thus, they're looking for spatial database product to
> store their aps.
> 
> Yesterday I showed postGIS being viewed by Quantum
> GIS, and my superiors became interested in open-source
> spatial database. Problem is, our organization is
> currently using ESRI ArcView, and they are reluctant
> to "migrate" their current viewer to ArcView. Bottom
> line; we has to retain ArcView as their GIS viewer.
> 
> We are not creating our own maps though; the map
> creation is outsourced to third-party GIS consultants,
> so we only use ESRI to view the maps.
> 
> My question is: can ArcView view the map stored in
> postGIS tables? And if they can, is the feature "out
> of the box", or do we need some third-party connector?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Kresh
> 
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