How about sis-shapefile just to be canonical and simple. Cheers, Chris
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Martin Desruisseaux <[email protected]> Organization: Geomatys Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, August 26, 2013 7:27 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Proposal for merging Shapefile branch to trunk >Which module name do you think would be preferable? "sis-shapefile" or >something like "sis-esri" (or "sis-esri-formats", etc.) ? The later >would keep room for future ESRI formats in the same module. I'm neutral >on this topic, this is up to you. > > Martin > > >Le 26/08/13 15:15, Travis L Pinney a écrit : >> Those formats are common in ESRI shops, as well as Shapefiles. I am >> not sure if they share common code because the formats are proprietary >> and undocumented. The one I left off was ArcSDE but it may be good to >> support that in the future with an API. >> >> Here is a good summary of the different ones. >> >> >>http://resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/types-of-geodatabas >>es >> >> GDAL works with these formats (with varying degrees of functionality) >> as described below in the links to the GDAL documentation. >> >> Personal Geodatabases >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html >> Prerequisites: unixODBC and MDB Tools >> >> File Geodatabases >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html >> Prerequisites: ESRI provided FileGDB API SDK >> >> ArcSDE >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sde.html >> Prerequisites: ESRI provided ArcSDE client libraries >> >> >> Thanks, >> Travis >
