Hi Bruce
I've done fairly extensive research as this is a very common situation.
The landscape is quite fluid though.
There are a few third party extensions out there but I haven't had much
luck with them in a read-write production environment.
Native read support of PostGIS from ArcGIS desktop has been available
for a few versions now. The clincher is write support. For that you need
to pay up and as a minimum get ArcGIS Editor (now called Standard).
ArcGIS ArcView (now called Basic) won't get you write access. And you
can't get around it with WFS-T either.
So in a nutshell, to write to native PostGIS via a database connection
or WFS-T you need either ArcGIS Standard ('Editor') or Enterprise
('ArcInfo') or ArcGIS Server (set up to use native PostGIS geometry).
Gavin
On 11/07/2014 06:56, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have any experience using PostGIS as a vector spatial data
source with ArcGIS Desktop as a client?
I'm particularly interested in our ArcGIS Desktop users being able to
create, update and delete spatial data managed within a PostGIS
environment, without the use of ArcSDE or similar middle wear.
Would you be interested in sharing any experiences that you've had
from implementation to operational use?
We have a mixed spatial environment with both ArcGIS Desktop and open
source Desktop GIS applications as client tools.
Provided that we can arrive at a good robust solution, I'd like to
move our ArcGIS Desktop clients away from ArcSDE, and consolidate our
vector spatial database environment on Postgres / PostGIS.
Bruce
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