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

[Johan Nilsson]

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From: Johan Nilsson <joni8135 at gmail.com>
Date: 2012/9/22
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?
To: Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>


Andre Bernard.
There is another thing with 'Personal geodatabase' and that is that ESRI
don't recommend to use it in their documentation because it slow and get
really slow if they are bigger and the absolute size are limited. mdb are
also a propretarian format and there are problem to read and write without
MS Access.


2012/9/22 Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de>

> 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<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?
>>
>>
>>
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