Digimap offers file geodatabase

Saturday, 1 November, 2014

Digimap is now supporting the file geodatabase format for downloading Mastermap. Whilst GML is a good standard for data transfer, Digimap’s users by an large use ArcGIS and QGIS and by offering it this way it should make life much easier for using Mastermap.

Note that the file geodatabase has long been touted as the successor to the shapefile, but Esri dragged it’s heels over publishing the api although it now works on Windows, Linux and Mac (32/64bit) so hopefully this will help push things along a little more.