Connect to ESRI Personal Geodatabase

[Mike Davis]

Funding things where I work is like pulling teeth, but I will inquire
with the "powers that be" to see if it is possible, this is a feature
we would really like to have (especially if the performace is close to
that of shapefiles).

If someone can get me a ballpark figure I will have a better idea of
how to approach this.

-Mike

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