[gdal-dev] MDB tools

[Stefan Keller]

I have a similar issue and supposedly a very simple question:
Given a file Geomedia .mdb file I'm getting a similar error on Windows.
% ogrinfo myfile.mdb -al -so
How does OGR recognize if it's a Personal Geodatabase or a Geomedia file?

:Stefan

2012-03-28 16:19 GMT+02:00 Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com>:
> 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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