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

[Stefan Keller]

Maybe I think about and extend my online GeoConverter with SQlite and
Personal or File Geodatabases some time...
But that's not suited to huge file sizes.
Do you think that could still help?

Yours, S.


2012/9/25 Alister Hood <Alister.Hood at synergine.com>:
> Hi,
>
>> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:14:29 +0200
>> From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>
>> To: Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>
>> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal"
>>       people?
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>>
>> Selon Etienne Tourigny <etourigny.dev at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault
>> > <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>> > > Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 21:58:30, Etienne Tourigny a ?crit :
>> > >> Hi Even,
>> > >>
>> > >> can you comment on using the java jackcess library? It's probably the
>> > >> only cross-platform solution. Does it support normal mdb files, and
>> if
>> > >> not, can it benefit from your recent additions?
>> > >>
>> > >> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html
>> > >> http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/
>> > >
>> > > The MDB driver (with Jackcess library) indeed already supports normal
>> MDB
>> > > files. But it is a bit of a pain to use (needs linking GDAL with a JVM
>> and
>> > the
>> > > Jackess .jar), so the latest improvement to the ODBC driver should
>> make it
>> > > easier.
>> >
>> > But your improvements are only supported in windows, right?
>>
>> Yes. But there would be no problems to make it work on Linux too, like it
>> is
>> done in the PGeo driver, but personnaly I don't see the interest in doing
>> so,
>> since in my experience, MDBTools, the Unix MDB ODBC driver, under Linux
>> (particularly 64bit) is too broken to be usefull
>
> Does this apply for the new 0.7 version of mdbtools?  It seems to have a low profile because it is on github instead of sourceforge...
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29472144
>
> Alister
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