[GRASS-user] Using Access .mdb Files

[Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E.]

The .mdb file is a proprietary Microsoft Access format.

Here is some info about importing:
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Data_formats#MicroSoft_Access

One option, mentioned there, is to convert it to sqlite then import.  

These might help:
http://code.google.com/p/mdb-sqlite/
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ConverterTools


--Adam



On Jan 11, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

>  This is a new one for me. The BLM (Bureau of Land Management, one of two
> agencies that manage federal lands in the US) has land status data I'd like
> to incorporate into a project. The data come in a .mdb file. This landowner
> file has vector data.
> 
>  I don't see an obvious v.in.<whatever> appropriate for .mdb files. What
> should I use for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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