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| Subject: | Re: GISList: Re: import of e00 using ArcView3.2 |
| Date: |
01/11/2002 08:36:42 PM |
| From: |
Rick Gray |
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I've been sitting on the sidelines long enough. I had to wade in with
my 2 cents worth. I think you =A0may have hit the nail on the head with
your first statement - garbage in - garbage out. I have used import71
on hundreds of .e00 files and the only ones I had trouble with were
ones that had problems to begin with. Garbage into import71, garbage
out. Maybe I have just been lucky, but I have found the tool to be
quite handy and extremely reliable.
Do the other software companies offer you a tool to compress your
layers and their associated files into one handy file? Not usually.
You were right on another point, too. Why would ESRI want to make it
easy for you to use their files in the competition's software? (E00
files originated long before ESRI's involvement in the Open GIS
Consortium). Having said that, many companies include tools to read
ESRI products. Maybe you should be cursing those companies for not
creating a decent import tool for .e00. After all, I am sure ESRI
would sell them the technology for the right price.
Also, keep in mind that the .e00 format has been around for a long
time. It was developed for use on what is now ancient technology. It
has survived the test of time and still serves its purpose well. If
the sites you complain about only provide their data in .e00 format,
they probably do so because a) it is convenient for them and b)it is
a format that most users still want. Flaming them will get you no
more than a quick trip to the recycle bin for your message. For a
reasonable fee, you can probably get any number of agencies to
translate the data for you if you do not have the technology.
I'm not the world's biggest ESRI fan - if only because I dislike
monopolies and sometimes it seems as if ESRI is perceived as one -
but it seems to me that your gripe is not well founded nor very
professional.
Rick Gray
Rick Gray
Older than average student (yet again!)
GIS Applications Specialist program
Sir Sandford Fleming College
Lindsay, Ontario
rigray@flemingc.on.ca
rick_gray@canoemail.com
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