RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: ESRI File Geodatabase
Hi Pablo,
If you really want to get into an FGDB, and you don't mind a bit of a hack, you
can do so using the ArcGIS Explorer SDK
(see http://resources.arcgis.com/content/arcgis-explorer/1500/download). The
ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.Data namespace has a Geodatabase class that you can use to
retrieve data from an FGDB. Should be quite sufficient for converting into
another format.
I'm no expert in this (I just stumbled on this stuff last week), and when I
tried to make use of the Geodatabase class in a console app, it told me some
licence wasn't initialized. It seems you can only use these classes as part of
the ArcGIS Explorer UI. Fortunately, they have this notion of an Extension,
which is a non-UI element that gets executed when the Explorer UI starts up. I
found that you can use the Geodatabase class from there. If converting the data
is all you want to do, you can then kill the UI before it really gets going by
calling System.Windows.Forms.Application.Exit. The little test class I played
with is attached.
Steve Stanton
--- On Fri, 26/11/10, Pablo Carreira pablotcarre...@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Pablo Carreira pablotcarre...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: ESRI File Geodatabase
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Date: Friday, 26 November, 2010, 12:20
From a lurker: IIRC, Access provided for some level of table export,
possibly including to CSV format. If so, the data cd be made available
outside the ESRI confines. Worth investigation?
AFAIK it is possible with the Personal Database.
But the File Geodatabase is a folder with a lot of strange files. ArcExplorer
can open it and export to other formats: Map Content and Layer Package -
useless.
Regards.
Pablo Torres Carreira
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:37:15 -0500
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: ESRI File Geodatabase
From: shor...@gmail.com
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
From a lurker: IIRC, Access provided for some level of table export,
possibly including to CSV format. If so, the data cd be made available
outside the ESRI confines. Worth investigation?
AS
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Pablo Carreira pablotcarre...@hotmail.com
wrote:
What a pity.
Thank you very much.
Pablo Torres Carreira
From: kars...@terragis.net
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
CC: pablotcarre...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: ESRI File Geodatabase
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:48:08 -0800
Hi Pablo,
No its not (yet) possible. The reason is that ESRI did not get their stuff
together to go ahead and publish the format specs (which they indicated they
would over two years ago now). You can use ESRI personal geodatabase (MS
access based) in ogr/gdal if support is compiled with it (mostly works on
windows, but not likely on Linux 64 bit systems)
Cheers
Karsten
Karsten Vennemann
Principal
Terra GIS LTD
www.terragis.net
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:52:59 -0200
From: Pablo Carreira pablotcarre...@hotmail.com
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI File Geodatabase
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Hi,
Is it possible to use or convert ESRI File Database with
open source software?
Regards.
Pablo Torres Carreira
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using System;
using ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.Data;
namespace MyExtension
{
public class TestExtension : ESRI.ArcGISExplorer.Application.Extension
{
public override void OnStartup()
{
using (System.IO.StreamWriter sw =
System.IO.File.CreateText(@C:\Temp\FGDB.txt))
{
Geodatabase gdb = new
Geodatabase(@C:\Users\sstanton\Data\Data.gdb);
sw.WriteLine(gdb opened);
foreach (Table t in gdb.GetTables())
{
RowCollection rc = t.GetRows();
string msg = String.Format(Name={0} IsSpatial={1}
GeomType={2} RowCount={3},
t.Name, t.IsSpatial, t.GeometryType,
rc.Count);
sw.WriteLine(msg);
}
}
System.Windows.Forms.Application.Exit();
}
}
}
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS
Hi Puneet, Now I'm having fun trying to guess where you're talking about! I just read about an ArcGIS-based pilot that was done a couple of years ago for Zanzibar - so is it Tanzania? Please ignore me if you're not at liberty to name names. Steve Stanton --- On Tue, 22/6/10, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: From: P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Tuesday, 22 June, 2010, 6:12 Hi all, Thanks for replying, everyone. Instead of replying to each one of you separately, I am replying to myself, primarily to add more info to this query. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:24 AM, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm that develops such a product catering to cadastral and land records management, but using a completely open source stack? A friend of mine is working in a SA country that has a new policy that all software at the national level must be non-commercial open source. A nice idea, but it plays havoc with their current cadastral and registry records management system running on a commercial, closed-source (well known) software platform. They now want to expand from a few municipality pilot to 10 times as many munis, and to eventually cover the entire country in the next decade. Their desire is to try replicate the current system using open source software. They have an estimate for the programming job, primarily based on the amount spent on programming the current system (not including the licenses for the base, commercial software). Their hope is to spend a similar amount programming an open source solution that can be replicated in the 200 or so munis without any additional cost for the software licenses. They have seen at least one other open source cadastral system implemented in a country in Africa, but found that system to be very weak, amateurish. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science === ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS
Well yes, I was stretching Tanzania into southern Africa. OK, so my radar is currently being realigned. I'll tell you where it is tomorrow. Maybe. Steve --- On Tue, 22/6/10, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: From: P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: land records management with open source GIS To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Tuesday, 22 June, 2010, 22:06 On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:54 PM, STEPHEN STANTON sstan...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Puneet, Now I'm having fun trying to guess where you're talking about! I just read about an ArcGIS-based pilot that was done a couple of years ago for Zanzibar - so is it Tanzania? You are off by a continent. SA = South America, not South African. In any case, Tanzania née Zanzibar would be Eastern Africa, no? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] land records management with open source GIS
Hi Puneet, I'm not aware of anything out of the box as of today, but the OSCAR project is certainly worth a look. It's described in a recent FAO publication - http://www.fig.net/pub/fao/floss_cadastre.pdf (also contains a section on OsGeo, courtesy of Arnulf Christl). There's also my own pet project - http://code.google.com/p/backsight/ It's focus is on data entry from old maps (it only cares about the spatial side of things). Currently pre-alpha, but based on something that actually works in the real world. Steve Stanton --- On Mon, 21/6/10, P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com wrote: From: P Kishor punk.k...@gmail.com Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] land records management with open source GIS To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Monday, 21 June, 2010, 6:24 does anyone know of an existing product, or a firm that develops such a product catering to cadastral and land records management, but using a completely open source stack? -- Puneet Kishor ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs invitation
Hi Julien, Are you talking just to FOSS4G presenters or everyone? The list on the OSGeo Labs page isn't that big, so I get the impression that it's not meant to become a huge list. By way of example (and to toot my own horn), I've been working on a cadastral data entry application (see http://code.google.com/p/backsight), and would dearly like to find other people who have an interest in working with me. Or just chat to people who are working in the same application domain. But given that not a lot of people get excited by cadastral systems (and OSGeo seems to emphasise web-related projects), I wonder whether sticking myself on the list would be appropriate. Steve --- On Wed, 14/10/09, Julien-Samuel Lacroix jlacr...@mapgears.com wrote: From: Julien-Samuel Lacroix jlacr...@mapgears.com Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Labs invitation To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 3:32 PM Hi, I would like to invite every FOSS4G presenters to register their projects in the OSGeo Labs page. OSGeo Labs aims to gather together all geospatial related FOSS projects and give visibility to all FOSS projects out there. You do not have to aim for OSGeo incubation to register. Just being a Free and Open Source Software and Geo related is enough to be added to the OSGeo Labs page. Please visit the OSGeo Labs page for more information: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs Best regards, Julien -- Julien-Samuel Lacroix Mapgears http://www.mapgears.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
