Connect to ESRI Personal Geodatabase

[Ken Lord]

Thanks for the responses, 
 Frank, are you saying that right now mapserver can read spatial data from a 
personal geodatabase using an ODBC connection (and if so, are there any 
exampes available)? Or would some amount of work needed to add the 
functionality?
 Thanks,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC

 On 7/6/05, Frank Warmerdam <fwarmerdam at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 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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