Connect to ESRI Personal Geodatabase

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 7/6/05, Ken Lord <kenlord at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? 

Ken,

The OGR ODBC driver does not support binary columns, such as
are used for the geometry in the personal geodatabase.   Also, there
is no "VRT" rule for translating this format into useful spatial information.
So currently the only approach to reading personal databases "directly"
in MapServer is via the OGR FMEObjects link which I think has some
performance issues, and is a bit hard to setup.

I have forwarded you a proposal and quote to implement support
"direct" access to personal geodatabases over ODBC.  If anyone
else is interested in seeing the proposal, let me know.

Best regards,
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