<div>Thanks Frank, </div>
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<div>We are reviewing the quote now, quite a reasonable quote too I might add, both in cost and scope.</div>
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<div>If there are any fly's on the wall here who would be interested in contributing financially to this effort, please do join us in the conversation :-)</div>
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<div>Cheers,<br>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, Ken Lord <<a href="mailto:kenlord@gmail.com">kenlord@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks for the responses,
<br>><br>> Frank, are you saying that right now mapserver can read spatial data from a<br>> personal geodatabase using an ODBC connection (and if so, are there any<br>> exampes available)? Or would some amount of work needed to add the
<br>> functionality?<br><br>Ken,<br><br>The OGR ODBC driver does not support binary columns, such as<br>are used for the geometry in the personal geodatabase. Also, there<br>is no "VRT" rule for translating this format into useful spatial information.
<br>So currently the only approach to reading personal databases "directly"<br>in MapServer is via the OGR FMEObjects link which I think has some<br>performance issues, and is a bit hard to setup.<br><br>I have forwarded you a proposal and quote to implement support
<br>"direct" access to personal geodatabases over ODBC. If anyone<br>else is interested in seeing the proposal, let me know.<br><br>Best regards,<br>--<br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
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