> > From: Duarte Carreira <dcarre...@edia.pt> > Subject: RE: [gdal-dev] Re: ESRI file geodatabase support > To: Eric Wolf <ebw...@gmail.com>, Peter J Halls <p.ha...@york.ac.uk> > Cc: "gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org" <gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org>, Matt > Wilkie > <map...@gmail.com> > > Well, if SpatiaLite offers some "proper" benefits and disseminates through > all of the FOSS world, then it may get a strong enough push even for ESRI to > pick it up. It happened before... (kml?) > > If SL would: > > > 1) Be as fast as shapefile in production settings, desktop and webgis > > 2) Offer SQL support, spatial and otherwise, also through desktop > tools like QGIS > > 3) Allow editing while serving (even if for 1 editor only) > > 4) Better support in QGIS than for shapefile (take advantage of > Spatial SQL, all other functionality) > > 5) Same for MapServer, GeoServer, gvSIG, et al. > > 6) Allow easy managing of rasters inside the .db file, through QGIS > > 7) ??more ideas/requests?? > > Then it would be a very, very good contender... and the ball would be > kicked to "the other side". > And it seems we're already there for some of the listed features. > Duarte > > Or even better, instead of waiting and complaining, we could just write a GeoDatabase OGR (ESRI) Workspace ourselves.
There are already examples of working ones out there http://svn.obtusesoft.com/core/trunk/ So instead of hoping and pleading for support, someone should just sit down and write it. I started one at one point (C++), got side tracked with other things. If anyone is interested in that source code, I would be happy to share that too. - Ragi
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