[postgis-users] Exporting to ESRI's ArcGIS

[alex bodnaru]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1


hi,

i might be wrong, but if i remember correctly, mapserver may masquerade
as imsserver.

hope to have helped,

alex

P Kishor wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Bruce Rindahl <rindahl at lrcwe.com> wrote:
> 
>> There is an extension called pgarc that that has most of the
>> functionality
>> you might be looking for.  See:
>> http://pgarc.sourceforge.net/
>> I have taken the code and made some changes.  I ported it to the new code
>> for 9.x.  It will load the extent of the display view and defines the
>> projection for the resultant shapefile that is loaded on the local
>> machine.
>> It can write to a PostGIS database but the functionality is limited - I
>> haven't really needed it.
>> I have had limited success in contacting the authors of pgarc to see
>> if they
>> are interested in updating the project.
>>
>>
> 
> Well, if you have managed to make it work with ArcGIS 9.x, that is
> indeed very sweet. Poking around in the pgarc website, I see that one
> of the project managers is 'spatialguru' or Tyler Mitchell. I am
> pretty sure he is on this list, if not, he is certainly on the
> MapServer list. He will readily respond to any queries/offers to help.
> 
> Unfortunately I know nothing about coding ArcGIS, so I am only a very
> keen and eager user of such a utility.
> 
> That said, it seems to extend ArcGIS -- I would much rather prefer to
> extend PostGIS so it emulates (something like imsemu) an ArcGIS
> compatible dsn. That way, an existing ArcGIS installation need not be
> disturbed, but can happily use PostGIS data, and PostGIS gets a really
> nice, albeit neither free nor open source, viewer for its data. Great
> for existing ArcGIS shops that might want to incorporate PostGIS for
> backend data management instead of putting up with SDE (I know of one
> such shop personally).
> 
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
>> [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of P
>> Kishor
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 3:25 PM
>> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Exporting to ESRI's ArcGIS
>>
>> Sorry, no help here (am curious about this meself), but I have a
>> related question -- anyone figured out how to view PostGIS data in
>> ArcGIS?
>>
>> On 9/13/06, Michael de Armas (Micotan) <michael.dearmas at micotan.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks, for the suggestion.
>> >
>> > Is that the only way? Let's say that, for some reasons, I cannot
>> install
>> > PostGIS in the PC where the app will run and/or I don't want to call an
>> > external program to do the job.
>> >
>> > I was thinking something like saving the geometry to a GML file, but I
>> don't
>> > know if ESRI could read the GML that PostGIS generates.
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > postgis-users mailing list
>> > postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
>> > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/
>> Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.ies.wisc.edu/
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://edu.osgeo.org/
>> _______________________________________________
>> postgis-users mailing list
>> postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> postgis-users mailing list
>> postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
>>
> 
> 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iQCVAwUBRQievtpwN1sq38njAQJjRQP/cfTfO65zgmeMSs4hVUYB0vCWpyLcrYj6
Gk/RowI0X/hbFahlAiV4Kx3WeQJU930j0caFWSuzTwo02KJOCJ24EPfMnpBmIsDo
RNlVqrd0Fs0V+ZG07LQnSPg1zuHZhL5zxi5WZmypFftWeS2MX2Ka5CkIWE9v3YjN
WW80b2tg3Rk=
=ZxK5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----