[Gdal-dev] Ogrinfo with ESRI personal database

[Schmoll,Martin [Edm]]

I'm having the same problem as Todd (i.e. can't use ESRI personal
geodatabases with ogrinfo).  I have the most recent builds I think: GDAL
1.3.1.0, FWTools 1.0.0b2.

 

How do I get the PGeo driver?

 

Martin

 

C:\Program Files\FWTools1.0.0b2>gdalinfo --version

GDAL 1.3.1.0, FWTools 1.0.0b2, released 2006/03/30

 

C:\Program Files\FWTools1.0.0b2>ogrinfo
Z:\GIS_DATA_REPOSITORY_EDM\GIS_DATA\FedLands\FedLands.mdb

FAILURE:

Unable to open datasource
`Z:\GIS_DATA_REPOSITORY_EDM\GIS_DATA\FedLands\FedLands

.mdb' with the following drivers.

  -> ESRI Shapefile

  -> MapInfo File

  -> UK .NTF

  -> SDTS

  -> TIGER

  -> S57

  -> DGN

  -> VRT

  -> AVCBin

  -> REC

  -> Memory

  -> CSV

  -> GML

  -> Interlis 1

  -> Interlis 2

  -> SQLite

  -> ODBC

  -> OGDI

  -> PostgreSQL

  -> MySQL

 

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
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Fri Dec 9 12:35:29 EST 2005
Todd,
 
It would appear you do not have a recent enough build of
GDAL/OGR.  If it were, it would include a PGeo driver in
the driver list.
 
The Personal Geodatabase driver does use ODBC, but is
distinct from the "plain" ODBC driver.   If you download
a very recent FWTools for win32 it should include the personal
geodatabase support (ie. 1.0.0a7):
 
  http://fwtools.maptools.org/
 
Best regards,

 

 

On 12/9/05, Todd.Southen at bentley.com
<http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev>  <Todd.Southen at
bentley.com <http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev> >
wrote:
> I'm trying to use ogrinfo on an ESRI personal database mdb file but it
> just fails:
>
> ogrinfo -summary c:\temp\MnDOT\P-069_Database.mdb
> FAILURE:
> Unable to open datasource `c:\temp\MnDOT\P-069_Database.mdb' with the
> following drivers.
>   -> ESRI Shapefile
>   -> UK .NTF
>   -> SDTS
>   -> TIGER
>   -> S57
>   -> MapInfo File
>   -> DGN
>   -> VRT
>   -> AVCBin
>   -> REC
>   -> Memory
>   -> CSV
>   -> GML
>   -> ODBC
>   -> OCI
>
> I'm running this on Windows.  Which driver does it use?  The docs say
it
> uses the ODBC driver, but when I look at the ogrodbcdriver.cpp it
> requires that the datasource name start with "ODBC:":
 

 

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