[gdal-dev] MDB tools

[Paolo Corti]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to find a way to list the data type of each field in all tables
> in a GeoMedia MDB databse.
>
> I tried ogrinfo mdbname and got:  ERROR 1: PGeo: MDB Tools driver not found!
>
> so, sudo apt-get install mdbtools, and tried again and got same error.
>
> so, sudo apt-get install gdal-bin and that gave me a newer version than that
> I did have.
> Interestingly apt-get returned:    Setting up gdal-bin (1.9.0-1~exp5~lucid4)
> ...... etc etc
> but afterwards:  ogrinfo --version still returns GDAL 1.8.1, released
> 2011/07/09
>

As you are on Linux, you should avoid the rely on ODBC, and use the
Geomedia driver [1], only available from gdal 1.9.
I would test it for you, but I have no Geomedia sample data for testing

p

[1] http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_geomedia.html

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