[gdal-dev] MDB tools

[Stefan Keller]

Zoltan

Yes, I'm testing GDAL 1.11.2, released 2015/02/10, in Windows which
supports PGeo and Geomedia.
My problem is, how can I tell ogrinfo's and ogr2ogr that myfile.mdb is
Geomedia and not PGeo (since both have fileextension .mdb)?

:Stefan


2015-10-02 15:48 GMT+02:00 Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>:
> Hi,
> Look at http://www.gdal.org/ogr_formats.html
>
> IIRC ogr2ogr needed that - but ogrinfo?  not sure - maybe the -oo param?
>
> You could also use ogrinfo --formats
> to see what's available on your system.
>
> Hopefully others will chip in too.
> Regards,
> Zoltan
>
>
> On 2015-10-02 15:38, Stefan Keller wrote:
>>
>> 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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