Abe Gillespie has the great news on his blog, zigGIS 2.0 is officially announced.
Obtuse Software is proud to announce the upcoming release of zigGIS 2.0. For over two years zigGIS has enabled ArcView to view and analyze PostGIS layers. New to version 2.0 is the ability to edit PostGIS data as well as support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Now all you folks who were unhappy that ESRI is charging for SQL Server 2008 access, now have an alternative avenue to view/edit SQL Server 2008 data. The questions I had seem to have been answered:
Obtuse Software releases zigGIS 2.0 sometime 2008 Q1. There is still much to be done so expect it later than sooner. Corporate licenses sell for $279 per seat. Personal and educational licenses are free. The source code will remain open.
So there you have it. View/edit both PostGIS and SQL Server 2008 right from ArcMap.
8 responses so far ↓
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George Silva
// Jan 7, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I gotta love that guy!
Congrats on the achievement! I´ll try to buy one license, to help you continue this wonderful project, and because its just…beautiful!
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Bao Duc
// Jan 7, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Beautiful painting!
Congratulate zigGIS upon having done a good job.
I wonder what esri think about this…
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J Wallis
// Jan 8, 2008 at 6:29 am
i think they won’t care. For $280 a seat most large corporate customers will just pay their maintenance and move on. If I tried to implement this I would quickly move on and just pay maintenance.
zigGIS needs to figure out if they want to go after the mom and pop shops, or the large ESRI customer base. If I were them I would issue corporate site licenses that are simply $1000 less than whatever the customers ESRI maintenance costs are.
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Sniper44
// Jan 9, 2008 at 9:57 am
J Wallis makes a very good point. I think Zig is only going to help the ‘little’ Ma and Pa shops. Corporate will not see it as a viable implementation.
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George Silva
// Jan 9, 2008 at 10:16 am
Well, it will help “mom and pa shops”, but they can grow, and help zigGIS grow.
After a while it might be a well-documented, and largerly used software, with more advanced functions.
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Sarel Coetzer
// Jan 10, 2008 at 11:13 pm
zigGIZ is fantasic. its know a zigView9.3, watch out for those ESRI curve balls (Arcview 9.4).
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AndyB
// Jan 11, 2008 at 4:10 am
“So there you have it. View/edit both PostGIS and SQL Server 2008 right from ArcMap”
Right from ArcMap as long as something’s sitting between. Guys you got to question your choice over product here.
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Kyle Lyons
// Jul 18, 2008 at 12:40 pm
This is great news! I am an undergraduate student working on a GIS project and we are using PostGIS for our storage database, mainly because we are using linux for visualizations in OpenGL and need access to GIS data for it. Supplying data from ArcGIS to PostGIS is a long and arduous task when using the shape uploader which involves me converting geo-database to shape, scping the file through a VM to a linux box then using the shp2psql tool to upload to the database.
Having a direct connection to my PostGIS database would be awesome and make my life a lot easier!
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