R / ArcGIS

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, S?ren Gebbert wrote:

Hi Roger.
nice that you mention the temporal GIS framework for GRASS GIS 7. Sorry
for my rude question, i am curious how is this related to R and ArcGIS?

Good question! The space-time field is developing so fast that it seems
helpful to encourage contacts between all working on issues of
representation and implementation, as well as analysis like Cressie & Wikle
(2011). This may make it easier later on, when users get confused about
things not integrating well. Your GRASS work using Python may give ideas to
others using Python, for example. It would be great, looking forward, for
the R spacetime package to integrate well with the GRASS temporal
implementation and anything that might emerge from ESRI, and for example
Terralib. Does that make sense?

Roger

Best regards
Soeren

2012/2/17 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Edzer Pebesma wrote:

Hi,

I might succeed meeting with some ESRI / ArcGIS folks at AAG next week;
I'm in touch with them in particular about linking R to ArcGIS.

Please also see this thread:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2012-February/057922.html

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/TemporalExtension

http://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk/temporal/

the code being Python-based.

I would like to find out if any of you has been successful (or
unsuccessful) in reading or writing ArcGIS geodatabase files directly
from R, by using the rgdal driver, or by some other means.

Another issue is reading/writing spatio-temporal features ?(netcdf does
spatio-temporal grids/arrays pretty well it seems); rumours go that
ArcGIS might, in the near future, support reading/writing SpatiaLite.

With best regards,

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Roger Bivand
Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics,
Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no

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Roger Bivand
Department of Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics,
Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no