Shapefile 2.0 Manifesto
Alex Willmer, a database administrator in Birmingham, England, offers a blog post on his “Misspelled nemesis club” blog exploring the need for and candidates to be the successor to the shapefile as “the” de facto standard for geospatial data. He suggests three possible options (ESRI’s File Geodatabase, Autodesk’s Spatial Data Format (SDF), and Alessandro Furieri’s Spatialite). In the end, he begs ESRI to open up the File Geodatabase. He chides ESRI for promising a library to read and write the format when the format launched and not delivering.
via @sgillies (on Twitter)
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/04 at 08:24 AM |
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