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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Translator for ESRI geodatabase format |
| Date: |
10/13/2005 04:00:01 PM |
| From: |
Bill Thoen |
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Wow, that problem got solved fast! I really like this idea of open
source tools more and more!! The MapInfo-L list has been ranting all
morning about the problems of translating geodatabase formats so I think
this news will cheer them up.
- Bill Thoen
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>A consortium of uses recently funded me to implement read-only
>support for ESRI Personal Geodatabases. All you need is the
>normal Microsoft Access ODBC driver - no ESRI software.
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>This is built into the latest FWTools builds from:
> http://fwtools.maptools.org/
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>You could translate all the layers in a personal geodatabase
>to a directory of shapefiles like this (from the FWTools Shell):
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> ogr2ogr out_shape_dir mydata.mdb
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>Some info on the driver is available at:
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> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html
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>The "Shape" column is reported as an OLE object but if read
>as a BLOB it matches the geometry format that appears in the .shp
>file of a shapefile.
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