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| Subject: | RE: GISList: de facto standards |
| Date: |
07/31/2003 06:55:01 PM |
| From: |
Kevin Whitlock |
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Viktoas & other Listers....
Safe Software's (http://www.safe.com) Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) allows
you to separate content from format. Why worry about finding a 'lowest common
denominator' file format when FME can translate from almost all GIS/CAD formats
to any other GIS/CAD format? All for about $500US.
Instead of thinking about a Word or Corel document file as being a 'standard'
format, try to think of the alphabet as the standardized basis of the document,
regardless of the application. This is how FME works...with polygons, points,
arcs, etc...the 'characters' of the GIS/CAD alphabet, if you would.
That being said, there are still a lot of people exchanging CAD information in
Autodesk .DXF and .DWG formats.
KW
-----Original Message-----
From: viktoras [mailto:firekv@hotmail.com]
Sent: August 1, 2003 12:39 AM
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: GISList: de facto standards
Hi , I would like to ask what universal data formats (both "old" and
"new", binary or ASCII) should be used to ensure portability of digital maps -
both raster and vector among most of the available GIS software without a risk
of information loss. Thanks in advance Viktoras
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