[GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Donovan Cameron wrote:

> Hey Rich, the .mxd files are project files for ESRI's ArcGIS and don't
> really contain any "data". They can be opened with ArcMap for example and
> are used to mostly conduct geospatial analysis and map production.

Donovan,

   Interesting. That's the problem with proprietary data: not everyone can
access it. And this is a shame for documents produced by federal agencies
since we all pay their costs.

> The other files you have, .mdb may contain the spatial data but I think
> that data cannot be converted or extracted from within grass unless GDAL
> has been built with .mdb support [1][2].

   I doubt they have spatial data. I think I have a tool here that converts
.mdb to something usable.

Thanks,

Rich