Hi Stefan, I think QGIS users are more likely to seek interoperability with other systems than ESRI users. So making ESRI work with QGIS via SpatialLite is probably not something that offers ESRI users much benefit, they'll probably be using ESRI file geodatabases instead. I believe QGIS will achieve more traction by working well with Arc,and seamlessly within an Arc environment, than the other way around. So while I have no problem with enhanced support for SpatiaLite for QGIS (& Arc), this should not be at the expense of shapefile support. And for improved ESRI interoperability. given how ESRI provides (deliberately?) such poorly performing OGC web service support that ESRI users tend to use the ESRI restful services instead, is QGIS/GDAL support for ESRI's native web services at all likely? Brent --- On Wed, 11/28/12, Stefan Keller <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Stefan Keller <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go SpatiaLite ! To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 3:28 AM Hi Brent Your point is very common and I understand this situation.But the ArcGIS SW suite doesn't really make interoperability easy and tends to maintain a vendor lock-in.My proposal is to break this deadlock by programming an free ArcGIS desktop extension which reads/writes Spatialite. Any volunteers? S. 2012/11/27 <[email protected]> As long as users have the choice, that's fine. I'm working with organisations with a very significant Arc server based GIS infrastructure, & am encouraging QGIS as a client for staff desktop use. This is not an uncommon situation, & QGIS needs to be viable for such use, & at least Arc compatible, if not Arc friendly. SpatiaLite, despite all it's advantages, is inappropriate here. Brent Wood --- On Tue, 11/27/12, Noli Sicad <[email protected]> wrote: From: Noli Sicad <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Get rid of Shapefiles ! Go SpatiaLite ! To: "haubourg" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 11:10 AM Spatialite 4.0.0 was released yesterday. Sandro will update the Spatialite QGIS data provider in the next few days to support Spatialite 4.0.x. Noli On 11/27/12, haubourg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey +1 for me! I answered in the old post on GeoJSON. > You pointed exactly what's missing now ! > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Re-Get-rid-of-Shapefiles-Go-SpatiaLite-tp5018830p5018893.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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