[gdal-dev] ESRI file geodatabase support

[Eduardo Kanegae]

Hi Ragi,

You mean, unless I use this pre-built version you gave me (
http://bit.ly/cNdrSr ) I´ll have to download GDAL sources + AO patches
and then build at Win box my own GDAL/MapServer bins to read this
format? Am I right?

Eduardo

Ragi wrote>>

Eduardo:

Not sure what you mean, but the ArcObjects OGR driver is, well, an OGR
driver. So it exposes things through an OGR interface. However the
ArcObjects side of things requires an ESRI license to run.
I have been using this driver in a production environment to load data from
FileGDB to PostGIS for the past 6 months without encountering any major
issues so far, so I have not really changed the code except for a few lines
in February to handle a small bug.

Feel free to get a Windows binary I built against 1.6

http://bit.ly/cNdrSr

If you want to know how to use it, I sent an e-mail to the mailing list
earlier

http://www.mail-archive.com/gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org/msg05562.html

As far as the ESRI official SDK, AFAIK, it won't be worked on until 10 is
released (for my purposes, I couldn't wait for that, so that's why I wrote
the ArcObjects OGR driver).


2010/6/9 Eduardo Kanegae <eduardo.kanegae at gmail.com>
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> thanks for the help Frank,
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> Or in less words: this support is still in development and we probably have to think in other solution to read fgdb´s using MapServer or other based on OGR or FDO interfaces.
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> Eduardo
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> 2010/6/9 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
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>> Eduardo Kanegae wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> I´ve this topic at Google http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/When-or-if-OGR-can-support-ESRI-file-geodatabase-td2592778.html
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>>> Is there any plan for OGR on supporting this ESRI format or this will depend on 'when' ESRI be able to open this format specification.
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>> Eduardo,
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>> Ragi Burhum has offered an ArcObjects based solution/driver for reading file
>> geodatabases for those with an ArcObject license.  I'm not sure what the
>> exact status of that driver is since I'm not in a position to help with it.
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>> For a less encumbered solution for file geodatabase we are effectively
>> waiting to see what ESRI provides in the manner of an SDK for reading them.
>> Once we have that, it is also not clear who, if anyone, would turn it into
>> an OGR driver.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
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