Anyone have a small piece of data in the new-fangled FGDB file format they are willing to send me?
P On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Dave Fuhry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That, and the sudden syntax changes, all to SQL compliance: > delimit fields with "field", not [field] > wildcards _ and %, not ? and * > UPPER and LOWER, not UCASE and LCASE > > and newly supported SQL clauses which ESRI is doubtful to have gone to > extra lengths to implement: > SELECT DISTINCT > GROUP BY, ORDER BY > Correlated sub-queries > Select list expressions > > Trivial for a full-fledged db, but atypical for a single-file > persistence & query system. > > -Dave > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Paul Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not sure what you're seeing that screams "SQLLite", but I found this >> line on the final "Post 8.2" slide regarding access options >> interesting: >> >> "Home grown open source spatial data API (e.g. GDAL, FDO)" >> >> P. >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Dave Fuhry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >> > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
