[GRASSLIST:10077] Re: trying to read in ArcView/.mdb file of NYC roads

[Markus Neteler]

U. George wrote:

> from the website:
> http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwnlion.shtml
>
> i would like to view the roads in the bronx. I am not familiar with
> either grass, or arcview.
> I have built 'grass' from source.  But am unable to import the
> LION.mdb data file.
>
>
> GRASS 6.0.1 (GRASS):/tmp/lion > unzip -l nyc_lion05bav.zip
> Archive:  nyc_lion05bav.zip
>   Length     Date   Time    Name
>  --------    ----   ----    ----
>     15360  05-10-05 14:59   LION Streets.lyr
>     18432  05-10-05 14:52   LION.lyr
>     27640  05-02-05 13:53   NYC LION Geocoding (GDB).lot
>     27201  05-10-05 11:44   NYC LION Geocoding (SDE).lot
>    133436  08-02-05 10:11   nyc_lion_metadata.htm
>  48627712  08-02-05 10:08   Data/LION.mdb
>         0  07-11-05 12:21   Data/
>    109568  07-20-05 12:34   Geocoding with LION.doc
>  --------                   -------
>  48959349                   8 files
>
You may use:

 http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
 " The MDB Tools project is a effort to document the MDB file format
used in Microsoft <http://www.microsoft.com/>'s Access database
<http://www.microsoft.com/office/access/default.asp> package, and to
provide a set of tools and applications to make that data available on
other platforms."

Markus