[GRASS-user] Importing ESRI Personal Geodatabase

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM, RichTC <richtcooper at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'd be grateful if someone could advise on the quickest way to import ESRI
> Personal Geodatabase into GRASS.
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to directly import the mdb into GRASS after installing the
> mdb driver?

"More or less" - AFAIK you need to register it as ODBC source then.
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/grass-odbc.html

> 2. I've been using ogr2ogr (ogr2ogr --version GDAL 1.7.1, released
> 2010/02/08) to convert the mdb to shapefiles (which I subsequently plan to
> import into GRASS) but the geometry is not being created in the shapefile.
>
> Eg.
>
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -a_srs EPSG:4326 test_BWA_adm_ogr.shp
> PGeo:sample_pgeo
> ERROR 1: importFromWKT() failed on SRS 'GEOGCS["GCS_'.
> ERROR 1: importFromWKT() failed on SRS 'GEOGCS["GCS_'.
> ERROR 1: importFromWKT() failed on SRS 'GEOGCS["GCS_'.
> Warning 6: Normalized/laundered field name: 'NAME_ENGLISH' to 'NAME_ENGLI'
...

All I know is this...
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html

> I'm running GRASS 6.4.0 RC7 on OpenSuse 11.3

(btw, consider to update to 6.4.0 final)

Markus