In regards to my insistence that the Data Interoperability extension be included with ArcGIS ArcView by default, I’ve been emailed that at least OGC GML Simple Features data will supported without the extension license. Also that KML support will also be included with ArcGIS 9.2. The beta should be here next week so we’ll have to see what exactly this entails.
GML Supported ArcGIS 9.2 (KML Also)
January 20th, 2006 · 1 Comment · ArcGIS Desktop, ESRI, Extensions, GIS
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Dave Smith
// Jan 21, 2006 at 8:04 am
I may be able to shed some light on that- last fall, to support Hurricane Katrina response we were tasked with developing an OGC-compliant nontransactional Web Feature Service (WFS) as a .NET wrapper atop a legacy Oracle PL/SQL app- Along the road two issues arose- one being minor issues of interpretation of how GML is handled from one product and vendor to the next- for example we saw differences between Carbon Project Carbon Viewer, Gaia and the ESRI Data Interoperability Extension (DIE), and the other minor issue being that the Data Interoperability Extension itself raised a question, as we discovered it was not included in our ELA.
It turns out, the guts of Data Interop are built on components provided by Safe Software (of Feature Manipulation Engine /FME fame). It’s my understanding that the separation was due to the terms of ESRI’s licensing of Safe technology.
As it turned out, thanks to great support from both ESRI and Safe, we got the kinks worked out and the app online quickly.
It could well be that the ESRI team is independently working on a WFS/WMS/GML solution (and at the same time it would make great sense to work toward support of other XML-based geospatial data). It would be a great move on ESRI’s part to make this support integral, as enterprises move toward SOA, Common Operational Picture and interoperability.
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