On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:59 AM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote:
I'm confused, I thought spatialite support was being added to ogr in
1.7 . http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sqlite.html
As to ESRI, I asked at the last DOI meeting prior to the ESRI
conference this year about spatialite support and they said they had
no plans to support it.
Of course, they used to say the same thing about postgresql/postgis
and if spatialite is implimented in ogr it will probably be included
down the road.
I don't know that ESRI uses OGR (vector), though I do know they are a
GDAL (raster) user. ESRI will probably on support spatialite if some
big government agency mandates it in order for them to fulfill a
contract. There's no incentive for them to take on a competing format
to their lock-in strategy (multiple kinds of a "file geodatabase").
PostGIS/PostgreSQL doesn't compete with their lock-in (which is
ArcSDE), and slightly tweaks one of their competitors (Oracle), so I
think that move makes sense in that context.
Howard
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