Hi Martin,
Disagreed. ...
Another way to think of this - what better way to to suck the life out of a
proprietary format than to make a one-way gateway into an open solution?
(This is a tried-and-true ploy of proprietary platforms...)
I see your point, but if I needed a one way
Translation has various problems, such as:
- a cumbersome step before being able to access data
- limitations of the shapefile format (which I presume you would have to
target for output): e.g. 2 GB limit, dumb column names, limited types, etc
- more storage requirements
Don't get me wrong -
