Paul, Thank you for your comments. I would like to add my thoughts to the sharing of styles between vendors. I think it is absolutely ludicrous that the vendors cannot share styles. They seem to be concentrating on the new world markets of communications and leave styles behind as too hard for the historical mapping market of which they are founded on. I have conveyed these thoughts to my local representatives of Oracle, ESRI, MapInfo and Intergraph. I have not bothered telling Bentley because I would not touch their so-called Oracle spatial solution. regards ========================= Lawrence Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: (+61 7) 340 36898 Fax: (+61 7) 340 35103 GIS Services, iDivision Brisbane City Council Floor 20, 69 Ann St BRISBANE, 4000 Queensland, Australia =========================
>>> "CRISP, Paul -Syntegra UK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2003/10/10 20:15:06 PM >>> This isn't as easy as it should be - MapInfo and others access Oracle natively but ESRI software uses their SDE middleware, with its own indexes, to store spatial data in Oracle. So a user of MapInfo product might be able to VIEW the data being maintained by an ESRI user but can't edit it. You also have to reapply all the styles yourself as I believe there is no means of passing them between the packages via Oracle. There are unsympathetic souls who have suggested this is entirely deliberate. The situation is simpler with other Oracle client GIS software (e.g. Laserscan, Autodesk and the others who have signed up for this new Oracle interoperability initiative). Be interesting to see what comes of this - I believe none of them turned up to the big GIS shows this year as a means of thumbing their noses at ESRI (who run them now) ;-) Anyone got any thoughts on that? I might be wrong - I never get to the shows myself because I now live in the distant North where we cling onto a crofting existence on a harsh rocky shore, subsisting on rusty girders and brown ale. Paul Crisp Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Flavio Hendry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2003 10:32 To: michel Van Asten; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L MapInfo - ESRI Hi Michel It should be possible using Oracle Spatial or Locator. You can access the data from MapInfo and from ArcGIS (how to do it with ArcGIS you find it in the install dir of ArcGIS under Doumentation, installArcGIS.html, Topic "Connecting to a database without ArcSDE", "Using Oracle Spatial layers with direct connect". best regards flavio -----Original Message----- From: "michel Van Asten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:31:04 +0200 Subject: MI-L MapInfo - ESRI > Hi, > > I am looking for informations about sharing cartographic data between > Mapinfo (MapX application)and ESRI(ARCSDE+...) via an ORACLE > database... > > (1) Is it possible ? > (2) Is there limitations ? > (3) How To... ? > > Regards, > > Michel Van Asten > Projections SPRL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com > | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 8698 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 8700 ******************************************************************** This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete it without reading, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to any other person Thank you Check us out at http://www.syntegra.com ******************************************************************** The following message has been received from the Internet. Please use with caution the message and any attachments This message has passed through an insecure network. All enquiries should be directed to the message author
