[postgis-users] *.gdbtable, etc

[David Fawcett]

ogr2ogr can read the feature classes from personal geodatabases (if
compiled with odbc)

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html

In looking at a recent build of FWTools for Windows, I don't see any
formats that look like personal geodatabase or odbc, but in a recent
OSGeo4W build, ogr2ogr outputs odbc as a possible format value.

They are really just souped up Access databases, so anything that can
read Access can get any relational attributes out for you.

You are lucky that these aren't the even more locked-in 'file geodatabases'...

David.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:17 PM, FW <forkandwait at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anybody working on a way to import data from <insert monopolistic
> GIS company name here>'s latest attempt to create vendor lock in via
> another useless file format, otherwise known as the personal
> geodatabase?
>
> I have a bunch of these files I would like to stuff into Postgis, and
> can't find a conversion tool.
>
> Thanks!
> (Grr....)
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