Re-reading your email it seems I misunderstood what you meant... So using the zigGIS ArcMap/PostGIS provider one could adapt it to read OGR datasources, like QGIS does. You would then access SpatiaLite and potentially all other OGR formats from ArcMap. Good idea.
Duarte De: Ragi Burhum [mailto:[email protected]] Enviada: quinta-feira, 17 de Junho de 2010 21:57 Para: [email protected] Cc: Duarte Carreira; Eric Wolf; Peter J Halls; Matt Wilkie Assunto: RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support From: Duarte Carreira <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support To: Eric Wolf <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Peter J Halls <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Well, if SpatiaLite offers some "proper" benefits and disseminates through all of the FOSS world, then it may get a strong enough push even for ESRI to pick it up. It happened before... (kml?) If SL would: 1) Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop and webgis 2) Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through desktop tools like QGIS 3) Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only) 4) Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take advantage of Spatial SQL, all other functionality) 5) Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al. 6) Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file, through QGIS 7) ??more ideas/requests?? Then it would be a very, very good contender... and the ball would be kicked to "the other side". And it seems we're already there for some of the listed features. Duarte Or even better, instead of waiting and complaining, we could just write a GeoDatabase OGR (ESRI) Workspace ourselves. There are already examples of working ones out there http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/ So instead of hoping and pleading for support, someone should just sit down and write it. I started one at one point (C++), got side tracked with other things. If anyone is interested in that source code, I would be happy to share that too. - Ragi
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