Possibly a silly question ?

[Steve Pashby]

Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam <at> POBOX.COM> writes:

> 
> Steve Pashby wrote:
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > Just a quick question ... can MapServer read data from ESRI's 
geodatabase.  
> > I've just tried accessing some data (and failed), but am not sure if its 
> > because MapServer cannot read data in a geodatabase, or if its my Mapfile !
> 
> Steve,
> 
> MapServer can utilize ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) files on Win32
> platforms *if* you have a sufficiently recent version of OGR in your
> MapServer build (at least GDAL 1.3.1).
> 
> Of course there are lots of things that could be going wrong.
> 
> I would encourage you to first verify that access to your personal
> geodatabase is working properly with ogrifo.
> 
> Of course, if you mean another one of the ESRI geodatabase options
> (geodatabase in SDE, etc) then different issues apply.
> 
> Best regards,


Hi, 

I have GDAL 1.3.1.0 and have eventually managed to open the geodatabase 
(via 'PGeo' driver?!) But how then do you put this into a Mapfile (CONNECTION 
TYPE PGeo ... and then the name of the file and continue as per a shapefile?)

I'm afraid i'm a bit of new to this and have only worked with shapefiles to 
date - but need to branch out !

Thanks for your help.

Steve.