<div>Thanks for the responses, </div>
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<div>Frank, are you saying that right now mapserver can read spatial data from a personal geodatabase using an ODBC connection (and if so, are there any exampes available)? Or would some amount of work needed to add the functionality?
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Ken Lord</div>
<div>Vancouver BC<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Warmerdam</b> <<a href="mailto:fwarmerdam@gmail.com">fwarmerdam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 7/6/05, Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@refractions.net">pramsey@refractions.net</a>> wrote:
<br>> Frank has much of the infrastructure needed already in OGR (ODBC<br>> driver, etc) and I have been told that the geodatabase internal<br>> spatial format is very simple (shapefile-in-a-table). All you need to
<br>> do is scrape together the funding. I bet if you asked, he'd write up<br>> a quote for free.<br><br>Folks,<br><br>My understanding is that the personal geodatabase table organization<br>is significantly different than the ArcSDE RDBMS organization. Also,
<br>keep in mind that the MapServer SDE support uses the SDE libraries<br>to do all the access. For personal geodatabases my preferred<br>approach is to use direct ODBC access to the .mdb file without any<br>direct dependence on ESRI software so that folks can work with
<br>personal geodatabases even without SDE or other ESRI libraries<br>being installed.<br><br>Best regards,<br>--<br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam,
<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent
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