<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I don't know a ton about Geodatabases but I'm pretty sure you need to purchase an ESRI product to write to them. It would be a good idea to have a conversion available though.</div><div><br></div><div>Kate<br></div><div><br>On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:52 PM, "McGuire, Matthew" <<a href="mailto:Matt.McGuire@metc.state.mn.us">Matt.McGuire@metc.state.mn.us</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Has anyone had considered a
Planet.osm </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:black">à</span><span style="color:black"> Geodatabase conversion that works the same as the
osm2pgsql?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The geodatabase standard is not
published, but there is an XML transfer standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.whitepapers.viewPaper&PID=43&MetaID=695" target="_blank"><a href="http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.whitepapers.viewPaper&PID=43&MetaID=695">http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.whitepapers.viewPaper&PID=43&MetaID=695</a></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The
advantage of having this available is that there is a large community of map
enthusiasts that are professionally committed to ArcGIS through their
employment. Exposing them to OSM on their own terms will help expand our
contributor base in the US.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Matt<o:p></o:p></p>
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