| API Reference | OSGeo FDO Provider for SDF |
00001 /*! \mainpage Introduction 00002 <div class="mainpage"> 00003 <!-- This is the index.html page that the user first sees. --> 00004 00005 <p>The Feature Data Objects (FDO) API provides access to data in a 00006 data store. A provider is a specific implementation of the FDO API 00007 that provides access to data in a particular data store. The FDO 00008 Provider for SDF provides FDO with access to an SDF-based data store. 00009 00010 <p>The FDO Provider for SDF uses Autodesk's spatial database 00011 format, which is a file-based personal geodatabase that supports 00012 multiple features/attributes, spatial indexing, 00013 interoperability, file-locking, and high performance for 00014 large data sets. 00015 </p> 00016 <p>The SDF file format has the following characteristics: 00017 </p> 00018 00019 <ul> 00020 <li> SDF files can be read on different platforms. 00021 <li> The SDF file format has its own spatial indexing. 00022 <li> SDF files can store geometric and non-geometric data with minimum 00023 overhead 00024 <li>Although it does not support concurrency control (locking), 00025 the SDF file format is a valid alternative to RDBMS. 00026 </ul> 00027 <p> 00028 For more information, see <i>The Essential FDO</i> (FET_TheEssentialFDO.pdf) 00029 and the <i>FDO Developer's Guide</i> (FDG_FDODevGuide.pdf). 00030 </p> 00031 00032 <br> 00033 </div> 00034 */ 00035 00036 00037 00038
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