Hello. I've been following this discussion with much interest. Spatialite really does standout to me as the "mostly done" format... as to ESRI interoperability, it will be easy to make a small tool/model for ESRI users that runs OGR in the background, so a simple checkout-checkin process can be achieved without much effort. If no one else builds it, I can make time for that. On the other hand it doesn't seem healthy to me that an OS GIS format should be tossed just because ESRI doesn't read it yet. It will if the format takes off the ground. (although implementing news formats in ArcGIS is difficult as can be seen by ziggis' example, and ESRI is not best known for including new formats)
Just my 2cents. Duarte Carreira ________________________________ De: doug_newc...@fws.gov [doug_newc...@fws.gov] Enviado: segunda-feira, 19 de Outubro de 2009 13:59 Para: Chris Barker Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org; gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org Assunto: Re: [gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles 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. Doug Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats. [cid:1__=0ABBFCC7DFD59B838f9e8a93df938690@fws.gov]Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> Sent by: gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 10/18/2009 11:42 PM To "gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" <gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org> cc Subject Re: [gdal-dev] Fastest vector format for combining shapefiles Simon Greener wrote: > What else is there to do for its adoption as the new shapefile for the > open source community? I heard someone say once that a specification isn't a standard unless there is more than one implementation (preferably more). Is there any other way to read or write a spatialite file than sqlite itself? It's also not a standard without a specification -- is there one (other than the source code, which, of course is the only truly accurate specification). Also -- do ESRI tools read or write it? Like it or not, they are the elephant in the room. My ESRI-using colleagues want to distribute data in the ESRI geodatabase format -- I don't like that, as I don't use ESRI tools, but I can't suggest an alternative that won't work for them. Sigh. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
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