Supporting data file formats by ArcGIS Mobile

[vijaykumarvempati]

Hi,

The data which is generated as Mobile cache by "Create Mobile Map" tool in ArcToolbox will be available in .db file.
I have a question here, can we generate the cache in any other file format like sql or anyother format which is generic to all the other applications. If Yes what are those other formats which ArcGIS Mobile will be able to support?
If in case ArcGIS Mobile supports only.db files then will SQL-Lite allow other applications to use the data available in .db file .
Any ideas or views on this query will me highly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

Thanks & Regards,
Vijay Kumar V

[IndraBisen]

Dear Vijay ,

Regarding your 1st question to convert in other formats: There is no other formats those are supported by ArcGIS mobile. However, you can export the data directly from your source feature class (from which the mobile cache was built) in more than 75 of other formats (requires Interoperability extension, some of the formats comes without extension also) including the MS SQL Spatial , Oracle Spatial or GML. For more details see (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/datainteroperability/common-questions)


2nd Que: You can open .db file in any other application and you can read/update the attribute data but you can not read spatial feature as it is stored as a binary format. Also, the schema is not stored in db file so you cannot identify layer by tables name.   But as it may be a case of reverse engineering so read license agreement carefully before trying it in real applications.



Regards,

indra bisen