Comments on: Geospatial and Mapping eSeminar

By: Emile Zola

Emile Zola — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:58:09 +0000

The TerraGo folks have this annoying thing called ‘a patent’ on their technology, which was of little interest to Adobe and ESRI when it was granted some years ago.

It now appears ESRI and Adobe are working together to hobble TerraGo and GeoPDF through in-domain marketing and cross-selling a less-capable native PDF as an export format from ESRI products.

Embrace to destroy. TerraGO really oughta assign the rights to ESRI and exit, stage left. Not likely to occur, given the egos in TerraGO offices…and in Redlands.

By: James Fee

James Fee — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:09:49 +0000

Well the whole Geospatial PDF vs GeoPDF vs TerraGo vs Adobe dynamic is of course interesting. PDF is a great format for sharing data despite the possible need for GeoPDF.

By: JW

JW — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:50:47 +0000

Considering that the people at the Adobe booth at the ESRI UC couldn’t have seemed any less interested in GeoPDF I find this development amusing. They just kept wanting to pass off the questions to TerraGo.

The ability to export out to KML or a shapefile from a GeoPDF should be built in Adobe 10 functionality, but it looks like I’ll have to keep using TerraGo.