Just a quick note: SQLite is supported through the FME add-on aka 
Interoperability Extension to ArcMap.

Duarte

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De: Peter J Halls [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviada: sexta-feira, 18 de Junho de 2010 14:49
Para: Duarte Carreira
Cc: Ragi Burhum; [email protected]; Eric Wolf; Matt Wilkie
Assunto: Re: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support

And ... I think I may have found the file geodatabase documentation promised ...
  in the  online ArecGIS 10 documentation, Administrator Library, Architecture
of a geodatabase, Geodatabase XML.  It would appear that, in addition to the XML
Schema they published several years ago, the XML documentation has been
augmented with a view to interoperability being achieved at the XML level.  So,
maybe no, they have not published the binary structure but they may have
published enough to enable XML exchange.  I've not read all the material - and I
would need to think about much of it before I understood it.  Whether there is
enough there I cannot say ...  I was looking at
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html

Best wishes,

Peter

Duarte Carreira wrote:
> Ragi,
>
> That is a good point, as always. Unfortunately I am not able to do that, but 
> I can help in any other way...
>
> The zigGIS driver (I think ) is for reading/writing PostGIS using ArcMap, 
> without having ArcSDE in the middle. As far as I know it does not read File 
> geodatabases... I think for now you would have to reverse engineer the way 
> fgdb's are written... given the effort, the discussion on whether to invest 
> the time on fgbd or invest it on SL is at least interesting... and even fun 
> for some of us.
>
> 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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