--- Peter Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> David,
>
> If one finds oneself thinking about creating large
> numbers of columns for
> particular features, the working model is likely not
> general enough (eg why
> not a child table that permits you to add any number
> of features you please
> for any number of countries or provinces or
> whatever, and a featureTypes
> table to handle repeating feature types?). As a
> general rule of thumb, I
> think you can expect to throw your first few models
> away. Your project
> sounds huge, so many geofeatures are changing, so
> many overlap. Rather than
> starting from scratch, did you check out already
> existing solutions, eg
> arcGIS
>
(http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.gateway)?
>
> Good luck.
Wow, that's an awesome resource. Coincidentally, I
downloaded ArcExplorer just a few hours ago, but I've
just begun to learn about GIS.
Thanks for the tip.
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