No, SpatialWare will not read SDE.
A quick thought ...
Short of building your own driver and casting functions there is no
"direct" method available. Within your application make an SDE client
connection (command line) that selects and saves data in shape file
format. Then read the shape file. Or optionally have your client make
a request through ARC IMS where the output is not directed to a page,
but as a shape file that will be read by MI client.
Application client (Visual Basic)
Application logic....
EVENT: request for data from SDE database
Create a temporary directory for application instance
Establish connection parameters
Construct select statement with output cast to shape file format
Make SDE client connection:
Open connection
Send query statement
Direct output file to temporary application directory
Close SDE connection (might be done somewhere else in application
logic)
Open table (shape file) from temporary directory
Continue application
-----Original Message-----
From: Eagle, David A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 05:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MI-L MapInfo reading ArcSDE?
Folks,
I have a situation that I would like some advice on. ANY comments
welcome or
shared experience!
We have a client that has converted MasterMap data (vector data from
Ordnance Survey, UK) using ESRIs MapManager 8.1 from *.GZ format into
ARC
SDE format and have stored it in Microsoft SQL Server. The data is then
read
by ARC IMS and ARC MAP as the clients. I would like to access that data
with
another client, namely MapInfo and I would rather not re-convert the
data or
have to manage a second data holding. What are my options? Would using
FME
as middleware to convert on the fly be feasible or restrictive due to
speed.
Maybe I could covert to TAB from ARC SDE using FME as the middleware and
then put a trigger in SQL to trigger data management in my second
holding
when the first is updated...or maybe I'm trying too hard? MapInfo corp
advise me that Spatialware will not read ARC SDE so I don't think that
is an
option unless anyone knows better?
Any thoughts?
Best Regards, David
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