[Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

[Andre Joost]

HiBernd,

apart from the solution you mention, MS Access database tables can also 
be accessed via the evis plugin. But this is only a one-way-importer.

It should be possible to connect to MDBs the same way as postgis and 
spatialite databases. I think the problem comes with database 
synchronisation and parallel working on the same database.

In such cases, the ultimate answer is: "You can have what you want, if 
you pay a developer for it."

Greetings,
André Joost

Am 22.09.2012 00:59, schrieb Bernd Vogelgesang:
> Hi there,
> from a talk at the German User Meeting today in Kassel (thanx to Claas
> for the organization), i got the impression that ONE important thing in
> qgis is still missing:
> Direct support for normal access databases!
>
> Personal geodatabases work like a charm now (many thanx for this!), but
> i was told, that a lot of people who would be the perfect target group
> for qgis, still work on a completely gis-free level, dealing with their
> data in normal access databases or even worse formats.
>
> To catch those people and show them the light, it seems to me to be
> crucial, that qgis would be able to add/join/edit normal tables from
> normal access database as well without having to do such odbc-magic
> apprx. 99% of the world population have never heard of.
>
> Here
> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/direct-mdb-read-in-QGis-td4637313.html
> i found a "solution" for geeks, but how about those people like me or
> john doe, who have no idea about how to compile gdal with other stuff
> but are merely able to do some gis work?
>
> I couldn'd find a feature request on the hub on this matter, so i wonder
> if this would be a good feature request, or whether there are technical,
> legal or "political" constraints preventing such a support so far.
>
> As far as i understand ESRI personal geodatabases are just some pimped
> access databases, so the impossibility to just load such in qgis is a
> mystery to me.
>
> Can anybody shed some light on this issue?
>
>