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

[Alex M]

Shaun,

Thanks I hadn't seen the write functionality before, but last time I
looked was a year ago. Very unclear what version they introduced the
writing, seems to be 10.4 released at the end of 2015. I suspect the
machines around here are still running 10.3

Any idea if you can direct edit those formats like other layers in Arc
(I should give it a try)?

Thanks,
-Alex

On 07/15/2016 09:24 AM, Shaun Walbridge wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> The Geodatabase issue and what the most appropriate storage format is for a standard is a complex topic so I won't jump into it, but wanted to mention that ArcGIS supports writing to both Geopackages and Spatalite databases and has for the past few releases. This can be accomplished in a few ways, including using the CreateSQLiteDatabase tool [1].
> 
> Cheers,
> Shaun
> 
> 1. http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/tools/data-management-toolbox/create-sqlite-database.htm
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-sig-Geo [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Alex Mandel
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 11:31 AM
> To: Paul Lantos <paul.lantos at duke.edu>; r-sig-geo at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] R-sig-Geo Digest, Vol 155, Issue 14
> 
> 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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