[GRASSLIST:10080] Re: trying to read in ArcView/.mdb file of NYC roads

[U. George]

got and compiled the src. not readable! :-{

  > mdb-ver /tmp/lion/Data/Lion.mdb
Can't alloc filename


Markus Neteler wrote:
> U. George wrote:
> 
> 
>>from the website:
>>http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwnlion.shtml
>>
>>i would like to view the roads in the bronx. I am not familiar with
>>either grass, or arcview.
>>I have built 'grass' from source.  But am unable to import the
>>LION.mdb data file.
>>
>>
>>GRASS 6.0.1 (GRASS):/tmp/lion > unzip -l nyc_lion05bav.zip
>>Archive:  nyc_lion05bav.zip
>>  Length     Date   Time    Name
>> --------    ----   ----    ----
>>    15360  05-10-05 14:59   LION Streets.lyr
>>    18432  05-10-05 14:52   LION.lyr
>>    27640  05-02-05 13:53   NYC LION Geocoding (GDB).lot
>>    27201  05-10-05 11:44   NYC LION Geocoding (SDE).lot
>>   133436  08-02-05 10:11   nyc_lion_metadata.htm
>> 48627712  08-02-05 10:08   Data/LION.mdb
>>        0  07-11-05 12:21   Data/
>>   109568  07-20-05 12:34   Geocoding with LION.doc
>> --------                   -------
>> 48959349                   8 files
>>
> 
> You may use:
> 
>  http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
>  " The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB file format
> used in Microsoft <http://www.microsoft.com/>'s Access database
> <http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/default.asp> package, and to
> provide a set of tools and applications to make that data available on
> other platforms."
> 
> Markus
> 
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