Connect to ESRI Personal Geodatabase

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 7/6/05, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
> Frank has much of the infrastructure needed already in OGR (ODBC
> driver, etc) and I have been told that the geodatabase internal
> spatial format is very simple (shapefile-in-a-table). All you need to
> do is scrape together the funding. I bet if you asked, he'd write up
> a quote for free.

Folks, 

My understanding is that the personal geodatabase table organization
is significantly different than the ArcSDE RDBMS organization.  Also,
keep in mind that the MapServer SDE support uses the SDE libraries
to do all the access.   For personal geodatabases my preferred 
approach is to use direct ODBC access to the .mdb file without any
direct dependence on ESRI software so that folks can work with 
personal geodatabases even without SDE or other ESRI libraries
being installed. 

Best regards,
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