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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Peter <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>QGis 1.8, Windows 7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Meier und Partner AG, Switzerland, www.meierpartner.ch<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Johan Nilsson<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 7. November 2012 13:07<br><b>An:</b> qgis-user<br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] How to open ESRI geodatabase in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9 on Ubuntu?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanx. Downloadig the FileGDB_API_1_2-32.tar.gz and also the 64-bit version.<br>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.<br><br>Can this help me?<br><a href="https://github.com/usgin/ncgmp/wiki/Installation-Example">https://github.com/usgin/ncgmp/wiki/Installation-Example</a><br><br>Thanx for al tips and helps /Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2012/11/7 Alex Mandel <<a href="mailto:tech_dev@wildintellect.com" target="_blank">tech_dev@wildintellect.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On 11/06/2012 10:43 PM, Johan Nilsson wrote:<br>> How do I open ESRIs geodatabase .gdb-files in QGIS 1.8 and Gdal 1.9? I have<br>> found on internet that the package OSGeo4W are needed, but this is only för<br>> ms-windows, i suppose, but I run Ubuntu 12.04LTS. As I understand it, is<br>> should also only bee possible for ArcGIS 10, not older versions of ArcGIS.<br>> By the way, .gdb appears in Ubuntu as a folder with lot of files inside.<br>><br>> /Cheers Jjohan N<br>><br>><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>They can be opened on either Windows or Linux, what you need is the<br>gdal/ogr file geodatabase driver. This requires getting some files from<br>ESRI (free) and doing a little bit of compiling.<br><br>I found this which should help. But I though there was a way that didn't<br>require a complete gdal compile.<br><a href="http://www.paolocorti.net/2012/01/10/gdal_19_released/" target="_blank">http://www.paolocorti.net/2012/01/10/gdal_19_released/</a><br><br>As for ArcGIS, there are several versions of Geodatabases, newer Arcs<br>can read older databases but not vice versa.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Alex<br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>