[gdal-dev] Using the OGR library with FileGDB driver

[xavier lhomme]

Raster Dataset and Mosaic Dataset are not supported  :
 See :
http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/devsummit13/papers/devsummit-170.pdf

Best Regards



2013/7/31 Carl Godkin <cgodkin at gmail.com>

>
> Thanks, Even.  You give me hope that I wasn't barking up the completely
> wrong tree.  I will attempt to debug a little on my own and post what I
> find (if anything).
>
> And I can certainly open a Trac ticket if I find something I think is
> working incorrectly.  Thanks!
>
> carl
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Even Rouault <
> even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>
>> Le mercredi 31 juillet 2013 00:07:08, Carl Godkin a écrit :
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm trying for the first time to use the OGR library to read ESRI
>> FileGDB
>> > (".gdb") databases and I think I must be doing something wrong.
>> >
>> > I built GDAL 1.10.0 with VS2010 and (among other additions) the
>> FileGDB_API
>> > 1.3 for VS2010 all on Win64.  Everything built cleanly but the OGR
>> library
>> > seems to be unable find layers in some .gdb data sets.
>> >
>> > To take my own code out of the equation, I tried to list the layers in
>> > various .gdb files from around the web using the version of "ogrinfo"
>> built
>> > along with the library.
>> >
>> > All of example .gdb projects from the samples/data directory in the ESRI
>> > FileGDB_API distribution work just fine as does some data from other
>> > sources.
>> >
>> > However, I find that a lot of .gdb data sets that I find on the web act
>> as
>> > if they have no layers.  (These are apparently up to date sites too, not
>> > very old sites.)
>> >
>> > In lots of cases, ogrinfo says just this:
>> > >ogrinfo -al WA_wetlands.gdb
>> >
>> > INFO: Open of `WA_wetlands.gdb'
>> >       using driver `FileGDB' successful.
>> >
>> > However, I know there are layers in the these files because ArcGIS
>> Explorer
>> > Desktop shows them just fine, but calls them "datasets."  The datasets,
>> > however, are not quite the same as the layers listed by "ogrinfo" (in
>> the
>> > cases where ogrinfo shows something useful) so I'm wondering if I am
>> > confused about the nomenclature or something.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any suggestions?  I feel like I must be missing
>> something
>> > obvious. Thanks very much for any ideas,
>>
>> Carl,
>>
>> The driver is supposed to have some support for reading layers in
>> "datasets",
>> but you are perhaps running into a bug, or a limitation of the FileGDB SDK
>> itself. Perhaps you could create a GDAL Trac ticket and attach one of
>> those
>> .gdb for investigation.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Even
>>
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>>
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