[Gdal-dev] iODBC drivers for Mac OS X

[William Kyngesburye]

(I hope this isn't bad form mentioning products...  I'm not  
affiliated with the company in question)

After patching my GDAL build on Mac OS X to use the Apple-provided  
iODBC instead of UnixODBC, I've been keeping an eye out for iODBC  
drivers, and hoping someone could test the FileMaker Pro iODBC driver.

One disappointment was that the only Access drivers I could find were  
bridges, so one still must have an Access server available.

A Mac OS X iODBC standalone driver for Access (direct from the MDB  
file) is now available:

http://www.actualtechnologies.com/product_access.php

They also have drivers for Oracle (another one of interest to GDAL/ 
GIS users), Sybase, SQL Server and Openbase.


Time to grab some MDBs from Arc and try out the GDAL personal  
geodatabase format driver!

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