[GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Rich Shepard wrote
> 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
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See 

http://www.gdal.org/drv_pgeo.html

try accordingly to this GDAL driver manual ogrinfo to your mdb files. 

it works for me on windows and linux to read personal geodatabases with the
. Mdb extension. 



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Helmut
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