Hi all At ESRI Developer Summit, March 22–25, 2010, Palm Springs, CA, they talked about the ArcGIS 10 to be expected in June 2010. But somebody (http://tinyurl.com/34nk558, 19. April 2010, german) said that the opening of the API (C++ only) won't make it into this release.
But since this is a storage format I question what this will be good for? I'm after an exchange format which is better than Shapefiles! Yours, S. P.S. Off topic proposal: It would be perhaps interesting to talk about a new GIS format at FOSS4G2010? There will be a presentation "SpatiaLite, the Shapefile of the future?" (the argumentats for it are already layed out here, unfortunately in german: http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2010/events/127.de.html ) 2010/6/14 Peter J Halls <p.ha...@york.ac.uk>: > Matt, > > although we were told at the time that the EMEA 2008 Proceedings would be > put online, I've yet to see them or hear of the result - I was a speaker and > submitted my materials on time and as requested and that seems to have been > the end of the story. > > Peter > > Matt Wilkie wrote: >> >> The earliest reference I found to a "promise" of an open specification for >> file-gdb was ESRI UC 2006, with discussion where of a forthcoming public >> specification mentioned as far back as ArcGIS 8.3. >> >> In many discussions people seem to use the terms open API and open file >> format specifications interchangeably. ESRI itself seems to be pretty >> clearly sticking to API-only line though, from the 2007 UC: >> >> "While ESRI would ideally like to open the file geodatabase format in a >> manner similar to what we did for shapefiles when we released ArcView 2, >> geodatabases are complex and can be easily corrupted outside the ArcGIS >> environment. Instead, we plan to engineer a high performing and well >> documented API that developers can freely embed in custom applications and >> that will read and write file geodatabase datasets. This will be released >> after ArcGIS 9.3." -- http://bit.ly/esri-uc-qa-2007 >> >> If you've a reference for talk of the file fromat spec though I'd love to >> see it. Searching for (EMEA) User Conference 2008 shows a few announcements >> for the event but no proceedings or blog reports; I'm likely not using the >> right keywords. >> >> I also echo the request for people attending *any* ESRI conferences to ask >> about both a public file format specifcation and programming API to the file >> geodatabase. >> >> best regards, >> >> matt wilkie >> -------------------------------------------- >> Geomatics Analyst >> Information Management and Technology >> Yukon Department of Environment >> 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 >> 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax >> http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/ >> -------------------------------------------- > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter J Halls, GIS Advisor, University of York > Telephone: 01904 433806 Fax: 01904 433740 > Snail mail: Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD > This message has the status of a private and personal communication > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
