[Freegis-list] Standard industrial Vector Map file format for GIS

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:53:08PM +0530, Daljit wrote:
> Can anyone suggest me which is the best Standard industrial Vector Map file
> format for GIS systems on a PDA ?

I think, there is not 'the best' format - it always depends on the
purpose.

A good standard for accessing geo-data is via the OpenGIS SFs,
but you probably don't want to run PostGIS/PostgreSQL on your
PDA ;-)

If you are looking for file formats, you should first
reflect your needs (what do you want to use the geo-data for?).
This might exclude some formats a priori or might show
that you have no need for a sophisticated format and rather
can use a broadly supported one (e.g. Shapefile).

Best

	Jan

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