[R-sig-Geo] R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 155, Issue 14

[Alex Mandel]

rgdal has a geodatabase driver (gdal in QGIS too)

Standardizing on the format is impossible unless ESRI opens the
specification. Currently open source tools, even using ESRI SDK can not
read Rasters from geodatabase, relation based values in vectors, and
have little or no write ability. Also ESRI gdb formats are not backwards
compatible with each other, if you write a file with the newest Arc it's
only usable with the newest versions.

I convert all gdb I receive into either gpkg or spatialite which FYI
ArcGIS can read both of those now. For whatever reason ESRI has not
implemented the ability to write to those formats yet.

-Alex

On 07/15/2016 04:40 AM, Paul Lantos wrote:
> ESRI / ArcGIS has moved beyond shapefiles too with the advent of geodatabases. In a GIS environment these are superior to shapefiles in many ways, and ESRI in its own training and help resources encourage geodatabases over shapefiles. As far as I've seen only SpaceStat has made itself compatible with geodatabases. But I think that it's a high priority for R, QGIS, etc to adopt the geodatabase as a common format, esp to facilitate interchange with ArcGIS.
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