topic User Data File Formats in .NET Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/user-data-file-formats/m-p/526012#M6449 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I looked into whether geodatabase would be a good format for user data. Ie polygons, paths, waypoints that they draw, record, or import from GPX files or KML files or other files. &nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Based on licensing requirements, it is only good (for me) as&nbsp;a read only format. My customers are consumers and wouldn't pay $500 per license. I understand that the more advanced licenses are needed for editing a geodatabase, even just locally.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>So what do people tend to use?</P><P></P><P>I've heard of something called Spatialite, but believe there would be complications getting it to build and distribute with .net.&nbsp;</P><P>I have used SQLite (without the spatialite&nbsp;extensions), since it is built in on mobile platforms like Android. But for querying purposes it was weak in two areas: finding polygons that intersect the screen and finding polylines that intersect the screen. The workarounds I've done on past projects were not pretty.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:39:59 GMT NathanMellor 2017-06-07T21:39:59Z User Data File Formats https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/user-data-file-formats/m-p/526012#M6449 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I looked into whether geodatabase would be a good format for user data. Ie polygons, paths, waypoints that they draw, record, or import from GPX files or KML files or other files. &nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Based on licensing requirements, it is only good (for me) as&nbsp;a read only format. My customers are consumers and wouldn't pay $500 per license. I understand that the more advanced licenses are needed for editing a geodatabase, even just locally.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>So what do people tend to use?</P><P></P><P>I've heard of something called Spatialite, but believe there would be complications getting it to build and distribute with .net.&nbsp;</P><P>I have used SQLite (without the spatialite&nbsp;extensions), since it is built in on mobile platforms like Android. But for querying purposes it was weak in two areas: finding polygons that intersect the screen and finding polylines that intersect the screen. The workarounds I've done on past projects were not pretty.&nbsp;</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:39:59 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/user-data-file-formats/m-p/526012#M6449 NathanMellor 2017-06-07T21:39:59Z