Connect to ESRI Personal Geodatabase

[Ken Lord]

Thanks Frank, 
 We are reviewing the quote now, quite a reasonable quote too I might add, 
both in cost and scope.
 If there are any fly's on the wall here who would be interested in 
contributing financially to this effort, please do join us in the 
conversation :-)
 Cheers,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC

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