[Qgis-user] Unable to open some LISTdata open data ESRI File Geodatabases

[Andrea Giudiceandrea]

> *JOLLY, Peter*
> /Thu Dec 15 14:49:47 PST 2022/
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> Maybe these are raster gdb datasets? How can I tell if that is the case?

It seems they contain raster as indicated in the metadata [1] and AFAIK 
the GDAL File Geodatabase drivers are not capable of raster reading and 
writing (ESRI File Geodatabase is a proprietary format).

> Is there any way the open a raster gdb other than with ESRI software?

You may be able to extract them using ArcRasterRescure [2]. It is the 
result of an effort to reverse engineer the ESRI File Geodatabase raster 
format.


> I can open gdb files in QGIS from LISTdata that are included as part of a set with shapefile and MapInfo tab files (e.g. in the "Tasmanian Irrigation Irrigation District" dataset). I'm guessing that is because these are vector gdb files?

Yes.

> I'm running QGIS 3.10.6 ltr on Windows 10 64-bit (yes I know it's not the latest ltr, but it was the most recent "portable" build I have been able to find and run successfully).

You can find more up to date QGIS portable versions at [3]. Just 
download one of the archives, extract it in a folder and launch 
qgis-grass.bat.


Best regards.

Andrea Giudiceandrea


[1] 
https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/data/geo-meta-data-record?detailRecordUID=4a1fbc79-3846-4718-9990-c93e7b4f8e4d
[2] https://github.com/r-barnes/ArcRasterRescue
[3] https://github.com/pigreco/QGIS_portable_3x#qgis
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