Fabrizio,

I have zero experience in the Android platform, so not very helpful there. I
do have over a decade of experience with GIS though, and when you say "ESRI
format" it could mean a number of things, I assume you are talking about the
Shapefile format [1]

Android is often referred to as a "subset" of Java, whatever that means
(again, excuse my ignorance on this). In Java environments there are many
options to render a shapefile into an image, a good open source library is
geotools [2]. I have the gut feeling that it will have a lot of Java 2D
required packages that might not be part of Android from what I have heard.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile
[2] http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Home




On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> As the subject says, I need to render some data encoded with the ESRI
> format. Indeed, I'm not strictly bound to ESRI - the original data
> that I can get is in ESRI, but I could pre-process it first and render
> later on Android.
> That's why I'm asking for a suggestion, as there are multiple options.
> The straightforward one is to convert to bitmaps and I've just to find
> an application (that needn't to be Java) that converts ESRI to a JPG.
> But it would be nice to keep the format vectorial, such as SVG. Which
> translates the question in: what vectorial format is easily renderable
> on Android and can be converted from ESRI?
>
> Thanks.
>
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