[Qgis-user] How to open ESRI geodatabase in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9 on Ubuntu?

[Alex Mandel]

Looking at the gdal-build-mrsid helper tool, I think the pattern is:
1. download the SDK from ESRI
2. build a copy of gdal (same version you have on your system already)
off to the side with the FGDB plugin enabled
3. Install/Copy that plugin into your ogr (gdal?) plugins folder

I'm still digging to see if someone has written out a helper script or
more clear instructions.

Enjoy,
Alex

On 11/07/2012 09:47 AM, Johan Nilsson wrote:
> Peter. I think Add-vector-->Database-->ESRI personal geodatabase, are just
> Personal Geodatabase, aka a JET-db or MS-access-database? ESRIs File
> database are what ESRI recommend to use, not the MS-Access typ of db
> because of bad preformance add a size limit of 1GB.
> 
> I stilll try to understand what I need to do with GDAL and the
> ESRI-FileGDB... I need to uninstall the old GDAL things and stuff? Don't
> what to break the system...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 2012/11/7 Peter Schürch <p.schuerch at meierpartner.ch>
> 
>> I think I managed to open ESRI Geodatabase as a Database source without
>> any tweaking opening them as a Vectorfile and then choosing Database
>> (instead of File).****
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>> *Von:* qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
>> qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *Johan Nilsson
>> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 7. November 2012 13:07
>> *An:* qgis-user
>> *Betreff:* Re: [Qgis-user] How to open ESRI geodatabase in QGIS 1.8 and
>> Gdal 1.9 on Ubuntu?****
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>> Thanx. Downloadig the FileGDB_API_1_2-32.tar.gz and also the 64-bit
>> version.
>> I have only compiled one thing in Ubuntu and that was a component in Unity
>> (to get navigation buttom, to the left in stead of right, and during that I
>> have a row, to row tutorial.
>>
>> Can this help me?
>> https://github.com/usgin/ncgmp/wiki/Installation-Example
>>
>> Thanx for al tips and helps /Cheers****
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>> 2012/11/7 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>****
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>> On 11/06/2012 10:43 PM, Johan Nilsson wrote:
>>> How do I open ESRIs geodatabase .gdb-files in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9? I
>> have
>>> found on internet that the package OSGeo4W are needed, but this is only
>> för
>>> ms-windows, i suppose, but I run Ubuntu 12.04LTS. As I understand it, is
>>> should also only bee possible for ArcGIS 10, not older versions of
>> ArcGIS.
>>> By the way, .gdb appears in Ubuntu as a folder with lot of files inside.
>>>
>>> /Cheers Jjohan N
>>>
>>> ****
>>
>> They can be opened on either Windows or Linux, what you need is the
>> gdal/ogr file geodatabase driver. This requires getting some files from
>> ESRI (free) and doing a little bit of compiling.
>>
>> I found this which should help. But I though there was a way that didn't
>> require a complete gdal compile.
>> http://www.paolocorti.net/2012/01/10/gdal_19_released/
>>
>> As for ArcGIS, there are several versions of Geodatabases, newer Arcs
>> can read older databases but not vice versa.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
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