Matt, the only reason I have seen presented for some reluctance in pushing spatialite as a de facto standard following shapefile's success, is not having a foothold in the closed source sector. That's the only thing ESRI's fgdb could potentially offer, since the extra data types supported will not be available outside ESRI's software (Terrain, Topology, Networks, etc.).
(As for interoperability with ESRI, its users can always export to shapefile. Ofcourse I would prefer to directly read fgdb data but if not possible it's ok too.) So the question is: is it true that for a new "universal" spatial format to be born it has to have at least read support in the closed source world? Duarte -----Mensagem original----- De: Matt Wilkie [mailto:map...@gmail.com] Enviada: terça-feira, 15 de Junho de 2010 22:52 Para: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Assunto: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support I think discussing a shapefile successor, or even perhaps a code sprint, is a very good topic for FOSS4G. This same thread that we're weaving now is/has happened on a number mailing lists and usually generated dozens of responses each time. The interest is clear. From my vantage the germinating seed crystal could be spatialite, but there seems to be some general reluctance to jump on board. I'm ignorant of the reasons for that, perhaps that will come out at FOSS4G; wish I could be there! Ivan: I personally welcome and will use a gdal/ogr that uses the currently installed arcgis libraries however for the health of the industry I'd like to see unencumbered access. Thanks for letting me know at least part of my ramblings are of interest cheers, -matt -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/gdal-dev-ESRI-file-geodatabase-support-tp5159756p5183957.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
