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I'd like to be able to read ArcGIS Raster Geodatabases from within
GDAL.<br>
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Based on some previous work by Even Roualt and James Ramm, I have a
working program to extract data and projections into GeoTIFFs
available <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/r-barnes/ArcRasterRescue">here</a>.<br>
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There are still a few things to figure out, but this is functional
enough that it may be useful to people and, since I don't have
access to a large set of geodatabases, it's difficult to for me to
get ahold of the exotic examples which would help flesh it out.
There are also some things we may never know about the format
because they are not used in the wild, so perhaps everything is
already working! For this reason, I think it would be useful to
build this into GDAL, and I'm willing to give it a shot.<br>
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However, I'm not entirely sure how to proceed.<br>
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Since there are commonalities with the OGR OpenFileGDB plug-in, I
could copy that code wholesale and make the necessary modifications,
though this seems wasteful.<br>
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I could also modify the existing code, but then the plugin would be
for both GDAL and OGR, which seems to break the separation between
the two that I see in the source.<br>
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If you have thoughts about what is best, drop me a line off-channel
and we'll see if we can figure something out.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Richard<br>
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