[Qgis-user] Re: ArcInfo gdb file system

[Brad Nesom]

I will offer the same for the esri file.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, if it is the garmin .gdb format, if you send me the file, i can
> open it up, and save it as a .gpx file.
>
>
> gpsmapedit, can also open up the garmin files.
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On 4/25/11, Brad Nesom <gisbradokla at live.com> wrote:
> > to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder
> structure
> > with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in
> > that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file. There
> > are differences in the two files. Easily identifiable though because one
> is
> > a folder. the other a single file.
> > If the USFS was providing data sets it is probably ESRI. If they were
> > providing wildlife tracks it very well could be GPS data.
> > GPSBabel I think is still free. There should be a few formats for output
> > including ESRI shapefile.
> > HTH
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, <mtnbiketrail at zzz.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I found an email thread that says how to manually convert it using
> >> GPSBabel. But it was for Garmin gdb, not ESRI. I'm not sure what the
> >> difference, if any, is. There is a DNRGarmin plugin into ESRI that is
> >> supposed to work, but again, I don't have ArcView.
> >>
> >> The gdb data is from the USFS. Maybe I will ask them for shapefiles.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> > ESRI only recently released the file gdb format from proprietary. I
> >> > doubt
> >> > there is anything in the open source plugin world yet. However I am
> sure
> >> > that it will become a popular plugin as soon as someone digs into it.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, <mtnbiketrail at zzz.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> How do I handle gdb files? I don't have ESRI program. Does QGIS have
> a
> >> >> way
> >> >> of importing these?
> >> >>
> >> >> thanks,
> >> >> Tom
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