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From: "RIBOT Nicolas" <nicolas.ribot@c-s.fr>
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Subject: RE: ESRI MapObjets - PgArc
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> PgArc ? Please tell us more.
> 

Hi all,

PgArc is an Open Source project initially created by Gretti N'Guessan,
Nicolas Ribot and Tyler Mitchell.

Its main purpose is to read/write postgis Database geometric object into
ArcGIS 8.x by using ODBC.
It was developed in VBA and and VB and packaged as a DLL.

Namely, it allows to:
	- See all geographic tables into the choosen ODBC Postgis source
(tables having an entry in the geometry_columns table)

	-Dump this table into a shapefile and open it into ArcGIS
	- Writes this shapefile back to a postgis table after having worked
on it.

It uses a simple WKT parser to transform postgis geometries into ArcObject
features.

The second aspect of this project is to create a true OleDB link  between
arcGIS and Postgis to use postgis as a native data source.

Further information can be found at:
sourceforge.org/projects/pgarc.

With ArcGIS 9.0 release, I think this project might become out-of-date. But
I tried ArcGIS 9.0 and was unable to connect to a Postgis Database with
OleDB. So PgArc may still be interesting.

Don't hesitate to contact me for any further information

Nicolas Ribot
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