Bruce, there is no issue with using this mailing list for discussing
interacting with our open tools and others...it is VERY interesting and
please do continue and share.
-jeff
On 2014-07-11, 9:01 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> Many thanks Gavin.
>
> We have the required licenses, so that will be OK.
>
>>From memory, ESRI's support is a few versions of Postgres and PostGIS behind
>>the current releases.
>
> Have you had any luck with using versions of Postgres and PostGIS higher than
> ESRI claim to support.
>
> We're running ArcGIS 10.1 and the new Postgres / PostGIS environment that
> we're looking at is 9.3.4 with PostGIS 2.1.3.
>
> We'll be running our own tests, but it would useful to have an idea of
> potential issues.
>
>
>
> If anyone would like me to move this thread off Discuss, please let me know.
> However I suspect that it may be of interest to a number of sites.
>
> Bruce
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Using ArcGIS Desktop with PostGIS
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>
> 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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