[GRASSLIST:10081] Re: trying to read in ArcView/.mdb file of NYC roads

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:12:26AM -0500, U. George wrote:
> got and compiled the src. not readable! :-{
> 
>  > mdb-ver /tmp/lion/Data/Lion.mdb
> Can't alloc filename

ls -la /tmp/lion/Data/Lion.mdb

?

Also:
IMHO the CVS version is more advanced than the 0.5 release.

Markus
 
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 

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