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zigGis 1.2 released

Filed on March 21st, 2007 at 7:44 pm under , , ,  

zigGIS 1.2, the Open Source ArcGis Desktop's connector to PostGIS, has just been released and you can download it here.

ArcMap with PostGis data using zigGis

This is a major release, as far it implements new important features like selections and rendering. At this time editing is still not supported (so it is still a read only connector).
Also ArcMap documents persistence is now fully supported, meaning that you can save your mxd document with your PostGIS layer in them, and then open them again without problems.
zigGis should correctly work with ArcGis 9.0 (sp3), 9.1 and 9.2. Before installing it don't forget to install .NET support for ArcGis.

the ArcMap toc with PostGis data using zigGis

Here is a list of supported and unsupported features in ArcMap with zigGis 1.2:

supported features:
-direct PostGIS data read in ArcMap, whitout the need of converting data to shapefile or Geodatabase
-document persistence
-tools on standard toolbar, overview, magnifier
-selection by graphic, by attribute and by location, selection operators (add, remove, …)
-layout, graphs and reports
-copy & paste layers
-attribute table, with selections, sort, statistics, freeze column
-selection layer creation
-transparency
-scale range
-any simbology renderer (features, categories, quantities, charts, multiple attributes)
-fields tab in layer properties
-definition query tab in layer properties
-labels tab in layer properties
-layer projections

unsupported features (will be in next releases)
-feature class and attribute table export (this actually crash ArcMap)
-Joins
-editing

What in the future?

We would like to implement ASAP editing capabilities and Catalog objects.
Bill Dollins is already developing Postgis ArcCatalog objects. Already at this release you will find in ArcCatalog a pretty "OGC Database Connection" node. From there it will be possible to create the OGC connection, for now only PostGIS ("Add new PostGis connection"), but maybe in the future also for other OGC db (Oracle Spatial, MySQL Spatial…). The tool is still not working, at this release, but gives an idea of what zigGis will become in the next releases.

If you are are experiencing problems installing and using zigGis, please use the zigGIS group and do not email me directly: I am not the only one working at this project (Abe and Bill are also on the road) and your questions may be of interest for the whole group.

Comments

7 Responses to “zigGis 1.2 released”

  1. GeoMusings on March 30th, 2007 10:15 pm

    zigGIS 1.2 Is Out

    Congratulations to Paolo for getting zigGIS 1.2 out the door. He's put a lot of work into fixing problems with selections and renderers and making it a much more usable tool.
    His post contains a list of features implemented at this version and it…

  2. morganusvitus on April 5th, 2007 5:30 pm

    The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)

  3. Sergi Gumà on April 23rd, 2007 9:29 am

    Hi,
    I want install the program and the install program send this error:
    "Unable to get installer types in the C:\….\zipGis\ZigGis.dll assembly.
    –> Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrive the LoaderExceptions
    property for more information."
    What can I do?
    Thanks

  4. Paolo Corti on April 23rd, 2007 9:47 am

    Hey Sergi
    for questions related to zigGis please post in the zigGis group:
    http://groups.google.com/group/ziggis
    your error may be related to not having installed .NET 2.0 support. Please look here:
    http://groups.google.com/group.....75eab9f090
    best regards

  5. Ricardo Stuven on June 18th, 2007 12:58 am

    http://www.codeplex.com/MsSqlS.....adId=11365

  6. Paolo Corti on June 28th, 2007 6:34 pm

    Hi Ricardo
    yes we have plans both for adding editing support to zigGis and for extending it to other OS OGC Compliant Spatial RDBMS (we are also considering MS Sql Spatial).
    The main problem is that me and the other two developers (Abe Gillespie and Bill Dollins) are very busy nowadays. I hope I will have some spare time in August-September for doing this stuff.
    Thanks for your feedback

  7. LUC on January 24th, 2008 5:36 pm

    hello,
    we try to use ziggis with arcmap 9.2 and we have a problem.
    When we use ziggis extension in arcmap we can list the postgis' layers but we can't load them.
    Here is the message : "error trying to read or write on protected memory …"
    Can you help me please ?
    sorry for my boring english
    regards
    Luc