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I'm not sure about Geomedia but the storage of an OLE object within an Access DB is as old as the first version of Access. It is good to see = ESRI (and their users) out growing their Borg cube. Robert's comment on the flat-file mentality of ESRI users is quite accurate. Relational DB = concepts in large GIS projects are great, unfortunately ESRI users will only = comply out of necessity. -----Original Message----- From: Mats Elfstr=F6m [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:57 PM To: Robert Crossley Cc: MapInfo List Subject: Re: MI-L MapPoint 2002 now supports MapInfo TAB and ESRI SHAPE files Robert Crossley wrote: > For a start, they have stored the spatial object as an OLE object = within the Access table. The concept is very neat, Hi All! Forgive me if I jump to conclusions here, but didn't Geomedia buy that concept a few years ago? The idea does not seem all that new to me. Regards, Mats.E --=20 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :Email/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#9517386 : :---------------------------------------------------------------------: :Mail/ GISKRAFT, Mats Elfstroem, Vaepplingv 21, SE-227 38 LUND, SWEDEN: :Phones: +46 46 145959, +46 70 595 3935 : ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body. _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
