[GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Randal Hale wrote:

> The MXD files are just ArcGIS Map documents. They will hold no data - only 
> symbology.

Randy,

   Therefore, useless to me.

> You'll need to get your data out of the personal geodatabase files (the
> .mdb files). It's been a while since I've tackled that - I wrote a
> tutorial for doing this in QGIS. People have had hit or miss luck with the
> tutorial -
> http://www.northrivergeographic.com/qgis-accessing-personal-geodatabase.
> It works for me (win 10 64 bit with QGIS).

   I think I still have an .mdb converter here somewhere. I'll go look for
it. I work with only linux and F/OSS tools. And I can still access data from
20+ years ago. :-)

> I know that probably isn't helping much - but - it might get you started.
> I don't think there's a straight forward way to push that into GRASS -
> there will need to be a few steps before hand.

   Okay. If I decide to pursue this I'll do more digging.

Thanks,

Rich