API Reference OSGeo FDO Provider for SDF
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Introduction

The Feature Data Objects (FDO) API provides access to data in a data store. A provider is a specific implementation of the FDO API that provides access to data in a particular data store. The FDO Provider for SDF provides FDO with access to an SDF-based data store.

The Autodesk SDF file format is a standalone, file-based spatial database format that supports multiple features classes and properties in a single file, and provides spatial indexing, interoperability, and high performance for large data sets.

The SDF file format has the following characteristics:

An SDF schema can support the following:

For more information, see The Essential FDO (FET_TheEssentialFDO.pdf) and the FDO Developer's Guide (FDG_FDODevGuide.pdf).



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