Timeline for ArcGIS and QGIS compatibility: issues with Shapefiles or Geodatabases?
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| Dec 21, 2014 at 14:37 | history | edited | underdark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 23:00 | comment | added | R.K. | I think it's best to focus one topic per question. That way, the answers can focus one topic. It will be easier to upvote it then. Having multiple topics introduces problems like say, the answer to the first topic being accurate and the second one isn't. And then it becomes a mess to rate/vote. There's also the benefit of having more nuanced answers per question if you split them. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 19:45 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 19:03 | comment | added | Get Spatial | It really isn't a matter of whether ArcGIS and QGIS play nice together. It is a matter of what data formats you choose to use. This is where you run into differences in support between the two software packages. Shapefiles are universally editable. Others, like File or Personal GDB, are editable in both, but not all feature types are supported. Others, like PostGIS/PostgreSQL without SDE, are editable in one, QGIS, but only viewable in the other, ArcGIS, through a query layer. It depends on what your end uses are as to what combination is going to be more appropriate for you. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 18:23 | comment | added | Mapsy Daisy | Right now he is only editing shapefiles for his work. We didn't dare to go beyond that with putting the question of compatibility out there. Sound like GDBs swapping is questionable. A task we were potentially going to give him was adjusting map annotation, but sounds like that may also be questionable too. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 17:50 | comment | added | John | Is he using shapefiles and feature classes exported just for his work (which is what I would suggest), or for lack of a better term is he editing the base data? QGIS doesn't recognize the sbn and sbx index files ArcMap produces for shapefiles, nor the xml. If you just give him the basic files (shp, shx and dbf, and a prj) his work should show up in ArcGIS just fine. Or you can just delete the sbx & sbn if they cause (rarely) problems and ArcMap will recreate them. I've used QGIS to edit file geodatabases without problems too but I admit to being a bit more leery about it. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 17:49 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | This post goes into detail on the subject: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/120785/… | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 17:48 | answer | added | dave_does_not_understand | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 17:47 | comment | added | Mapperz♦ | will they be accessing the geodatabase/shapefile files at the same time? arcmap/catalog will create lock file on both | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 17:32 | history | asked | Mapsy Daisy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |