On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Daniel Victoria wrote:
This is an old PDF (2009) but it lists some advantages of file geodatabase. https://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0309/files/9reasons.pdf
Daniel, Thanks for the URI.
Another thing worth mentioning is that in order to do topological analysis in ESRIs world, you would need to use geodatabases since shapefiles does not carry topology information.
That's what I thought. Of course I don't work in ESRI-world; not since I was a PC-ARC/Info beta tester in 1987.
But you mentioned that you are dealing with point data. I never heard of using topology with point data. So you are probably fine importing from either one (shape or gdb) Also, don't know it the topology part of a GDB file is recognized by OGR/grass. I believe Grass generates the topology once it's imports vector data, be it from shapefile or GDB.
I believe you're correct in this. When I collect a data set I try to include all information as I don't know what would be needed in the future.
Now, if the attribute table has long column names, accents and things like that, it's probably correct in the GDB. Remember that shapefiles use DBF for attribute table...
Nah. Not applicable.
Disclaimer: I haven´t used an ESRI product in a long time. So the information in here could be outdated
Yet it's perfectly good to answer my question. Best regards, Rich _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
