[R-sig-Geo] R / ArcGIS

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Sören Gebbert wrote:

> Hi Roger.
> nice that you mention the temporal GIS framework for GRASS GIS 7. Sorry 
> for my rude question, i am curious how is this related to R and ArcGIS?

Good question! The space-time field is developing so fast that it seems 
helpful to encourage contacts between all working on issues of 
representation and implementation, as well as analysis like Cressie & 
Wikle (2011). This may make it easier later on, when users get confused 
about things not integrating well. Your GRASS work using Python may give 
ideas to others using Python, for example. It would be great, looking 
forward, for the R spacetime package to integrate well with the GRASS 
temporal implementation and anything that might emerge from ESRI, and for 
example Terralib. Does that make sense?

Roger

>
> Best regards
> Soeren
>
> 2012/2/17 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>:
>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Edzer Pebesma wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I might succeed meeting with some ESRI / ArcGIS folks at AAG next week;
>>> I'm in touch with them in particular about linking R to ArcGIS.
>>
>>
>> Please also see this thread:
>>
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2012-February/057922.html
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/TemporalExtension
>>
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/temporal/
>>
>> the code being Python-based.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I would like to find out if any of you has been successful (or
>>> unsuccessful) in reading or writing ArcGIS geodatabase files directly
>>> from R, by using the rgdal driver, or by some other means.
>>>
>>> Another issue is reading/writing spatio-temporal features  (netcdf does
>>> spatio-temporal grids/arrays pretty well it seems); rumours go that
>>> ArcGIS might, in the near future, support reading/writing SpatiaLite.
>>>
>>> With best regards,
>>>
>>
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Roger Bivand
Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics,
Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no