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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m having the same problem as Todd (i.e. can’t
use ESRI personal geodatabases with ogrinfo). I have the most recent
builds I think: GDAL 1.3.1.0, FWTools 1.0.0b2.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>H</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>ow do I get the PGeo driver?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Martin</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>C:\Program Files\FWTools1.0.0b2>gdalinfo
--version</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>GDAL 1.3.1.0</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>FWTools 1.0.0b2</span></b>, released 2006/03/30</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>C:\Program Files\FWTools1.0.0b2>ogrinfo
Z:\GIS_DATA_REPOSITORY_EDM\GIS_DATA\FedLands\FedLands.mdb</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>FAILURE:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Unable to open datasource `Z:\GIS_DATA_REPOSITORY_EDM\GIS_DATA\FedLands\FedLands</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.mdb' with the following drivers.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> ESRI Shapefile</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> MapInfo File</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>UK</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> .NTF</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> SDTS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> TIGER</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> S57</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> DGN</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> VRT</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> AVCBin</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> REC</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> Memory</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> CSV</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> GML</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> Interlis 1</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> Interlis 2</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> SQLite</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> ODBC</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> OGDI</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> PostgreSQL</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> -> MySQL</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<pre><b><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Frank Warmerdam</span></font></b> <a
href="mailto:gdal-dev%40lists.maptools.org?Subject=%5BGdal-dev%5D%20Ogrinfo%20with%20ESRI%20personal%20database&In-Reply-To=EE8C2D034A022444B87B1332B3978105041A54B5%40extonpo1.bentley.com"
title="[Gdal-dev] Ogrinfo with ESRI personal database">warmerdam at pobox.com </a><br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Fri Dec 9 </span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>12:35:29 EST</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'> 2005</span></i></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Todd,</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>It would appear you do not have a recent enough build of</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>GDAL/OGR. If it were, it would include a PGeo driver in</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the driver list.</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Personal Geodatabase driver does use ODBC, but is</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>distinct from the "plain" ODBC driver. If you download</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>a very recent FWTools for win32 it should include the personal</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>geodatabase support (ie. 1.0.0a7):</span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://fwtools.maptools.org/">http://fwtools.maptools.org/</a></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Best regards,</span></font></pre>
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<pre><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>On </span></font>12/9/05, <a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">Todd.Southen at bentley.com</a> <<a
href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">Todd.Southen at bentley.com</a>> wrote:</pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> I'm trying to use ogrinfo on an ESRI personal database mdb file but it</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> just fails:</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> ogrinfo -summary c:\temp\MnDOT\P-069_Database.mdb</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> FAILURE:</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> Unable to open datasource `c:\temp\MnDOT\P-069_Database.mdb' with the</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> following drivers.</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> ESRI Shapefile</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> </span></i></span></font><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>UK</span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'> .NTF</span></i></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> SDTS</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> TIGER</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> S57</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> MapInfo File</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> DGN</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> VRT</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> AVCBin</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> REC</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> Memory</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> CSV</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> GML</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> ODBC</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> -> OCI</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> I'm running this on Windows. Which driver does it use? The docs say it</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> uses the ODBC driver, but when I look at the ogrodbcdriver.cpp it</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'> requires that the datasource name start with "ODBC:":</span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></pre>
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