[Manifold-l] On screen digitizing of curves

[Springfield Harrison]

Hello Simon:

         Thanks again.

         I'm puzzled, too.  I think they have an unreasonable focus on the 
curve/radius requirement and the Geodatabase format - perhaps not fully 
understanding their GIS well.  I sent in quite good sample shapefiles but 
to no avail.  BigName Co. Ltd. got the work.  So many things seem to put 
the cart first - this job (municipal gov't) had no written specs!

                 Thanks, cheers . . .


At 08/11/2007 09:05 PM Thursday, Simon Greener (SpatialDB Advisor) wrote:
>Springfield,
>
>>          I lost the job due to the curve requirement and their need for
>>the data to be in an ESRI Geodatabase.  After much research, it looks as
>>if
>>Manifold can write to a Personal Geodatabase (MDB file) but not create
>>one.  I looked at the ESRI www on this and was overwhelmed by the
>>jargon.  The Manifold help generally disparages the Geodatabase as
>>semantic trickery.
>>
>>          To come to the point: For those clients demanding a Geodatabase
>>file, what can Manifold Professional do for them?
>
>A strange demand (to my way of thinking). Why? A customer/client should be
>about defining the business problem and then chosing cost-effecitve
>software to meet that requirement/solve that problem. A customer/client
>should not be saying that a solution should use a particular
>format/product. With people like this you can't win.
>
>What can Manifold do? Well, interact with existing personal geodatabases,
>yes, but the problem should be one of storing corporate data in a proper
>database (eg IBM, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and then choosing
>software that enables that choice.
>
>regards
>Simon
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