Hi Martin, Those formats are common in ESRI shops, as well as Shapefiles. I am not sure if they share common code because the formats are proprietary and undocumented. The one I left off was ArcSDE but it may be good to support that in the future with an API.
Here is a good summary of the different ones. http://resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/types-of-geodatabases GDAL works with these formats (with varying degrees of functionality) as described below in the links to the GDAL documentation. Personal Geodatabases http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html Prerequisites: unixODBC and MDB Tools File Geodatabases http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html Prerequisites: ESRI provided FileGDB API SDK ArcSDE http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sde.html Prerequisites: ESRI provided ArcSDE client libraries Thanks, Travis On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 26/08/13 12:47, Travis L Pinney a écrit : > >> I think the closest thing would be the File Geo Database and Personal Geo >> Database. >> >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html >> >> The only difference is there is no written specifications of the format >> that I know of. > > > I'm not familiar with those formats... If we wanted to support them in a > future SIS version, do you think that it would make sense to provide them in > the "sis-shapefile" module, or are those formats too different for sharing > Shapefile code? > > I ask this question only to see if some module name that encompass both > "Shepafile" and "Geo Database" would be a good idea, or if it doesn't worth > to bother about the later. > > Martin >
