Does anybody know if the .gdb format is SQLite-based? I remember hearing rumors that ESRI's next geodatabase file format was to be. I'm unable to find anything confirming or denying this online.
I read http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/pug07/papers/workshops/file-gdb.pdf as giving strong indications that it is. -Dave On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Write an ArcGIS script to do all the work :) ArcGIS can export to > Shape file and can read lyr files. > > Heck: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12766 > > P. > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Raivo Alla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thank you all very much for answers. >> I am working on a project, where all data is in .gdb files and styles in >> ArcGIS .lyr format. >> I guess both - getting .gdb and .lyr files working in mapserver environment >> - are at the moment not possible? >> So I must convert convert .gdb files (using FME maybe?) to some readable >> format like shapefiles (if possible) and >> just type manually mapserver symbology files... uhh. >> >> >> Raivo >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote: >>> >>>> Fawcett, David wrote: >>>>> >>>>> .gdb files are ESRI's new File Geodatabase proprietary format. I am >>>>> quite sure that OGR/FWTools does not support it. >>>> >>>> David, >>>> >>>> Ah thanks. Indeed they are not supported and it is hard to imagine they >>>> will be supported for a while. ESRI has indicated in the past that they >>>> intend to provide an open mechanism to access the file geodatabase and >>>> that >>>> is still likely to happen at some point. However, I think this would be >>>> quite a few months away at best. >>> >>> Hmmm, and if ESRI provides it, then, like SDE, it probably won't be >>> available for OSX (or other linux platforms?). Bleh. >>> >>> ----- >>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> >>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ >>> >>> "I ache, therefore I am. Or in my case - I am, therefore I ache." >>> >>> - Marvin >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mapserver-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mapserver-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
