[GRASS-user] Re: winGrass, ODBC and MS Access database

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

>I checked
>http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows
>
>and don't see any ODBC reference there. Nor I see it here
>http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/versions.html

have a look at

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh#L131

so osgeo4w-based wingrass should be configured with --with-odbc

>
>Perhaps a wish request is needed at OSGeo4W?
>
>> There seem to be some older attempts with ODBC connections to ORACLE. But
>> as
>> I also could not find any hint, that anybody succeeded in using ODBC
>> database via OGR,  I suspect now, that this is not possible.
>
>Generally yes,
>http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Data_formats#ODBC
>http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/grass-odbc.html
>
>but you don't seem to have the ODBC driver compiled into
>winGRASS yet... 

> when I try to use v.external, db.in.ogr or v.in.ogr.

not tested yet if osgeo4w-gdal/ogr used by db.in.ogr or v.in.ogr  is built
with obdc-support.

Helmut



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Helmut
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