please help: .mdb access problem

[Hedwig Matl]

Hello List!

Thanks for all your replies, especially to Frank Warmerdam.
The problem really was the missing PGeo driver. The version 1.5.3. of 
ms4w includes PGeo, so now it works fine!

With best regards
Hedwig

Frank Warmerdam schrieb:
> Hedwig Matl wrote:
>> Hello and thanks for your reply!
>>
>> I edited the path for my message. I use the absolute path, which looks 
>> like this (I also tried relative paths):
>>
>> ---
>> CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
>> CONNECTION "c:\ms4w\apps\test2\mdb\Abtenau.mdb"
>> ---
>>
>> This is the error I get when I try to open the file with ogrinfo:
>>
>> ---
>> C:\>ogrinfo c:\ms4w\apps\test2\mdb\Abtenau.mdb
>> FAILURE:
>> Unable to open datasource `c:\ms4w\apps\test2\mdb\Abtenau.mdb' with 
>> the following drivers.
>>   -> ESRI Shapefile
>>   -> MapInfo File
>>   -> UK .NTF
>>   -> SDTS
>>   -> TIGER
>>   -> S57
>>   -> DGN
>>   -> VRT
>>   -> AVCBin
>>   -> REC
>>   -> Memory
>>   -> CSV
>>   -> GML
>>   -> ODBC
>>   -> PostgreSQL
>>   -> MySQL
>> ---
> 
> Hedwig,
> 
> Is the .mdb file in question supposed to be an ESRI Personal
> Geodatabase?  If so, your OGR is missing the PGeo (personal geodatabase)
> driver and so won't be able to read it.  This was due to a flaw in the
> build system for a few months.  Hopefully a newer or near future MS4W
> will have the correction.
> 
> If the .mdb file is not a personal geodatabase, then you will need to
> setup an ODBC DSN for it and follow the instructions on the OGR ODBC
> driver page.
> 
> Best regards,


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