YES. Our lab is trying to get out of the ArcGIS licencing "trap" which is prohibitively costly. The key would be a relatively easy way for us to convert our existing library of Arc geodatabases. Hope such a feature appears in QGIS very soon.
On 7 June 2011 16:49, Spencer Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > That's the kind of scenario that I'm interested in. I don't care so much > whether I can make extensive use of .gdb in QGIS, but it would be nice to > have some way to convert a .gdb to a useable format for those cases where I > can't control the format of the data that I'm receiving. > > Spencer > >>I think they are targeting service based applications that need to >>translate data for other uses, and given the low numbers of Mac servers >>out there I'm not surprised. They also stuck to their officially >>supported platforms which in the case of linux is actually only Redhat >>and SUSE. The same platforms you can run their other products on. >> >>One interesting idea would be if someone setup a website that takes the >>upload of a gdb and then offers the download of it's content in more >>open formats. >> >>Thanks, >>Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
