[mapserver-users] Mapserver and GDB files

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Fawcett, David wrote:
>> .gdb files are ESRI's new File Geodatabase proprietary format.  I am
>> quite sure that OGR/FWTools does not support it.
>
> David,
>
> Ah thanks.  Indeed they are not supported and it is hard to imagine  
> they
> will be supported for a while.  ESRI has indicated in the past that  
> they
> intend to provide an open mechanism to access the file geodatabase  
> and that
> is still likely to happen at some point.  However, I think this  
> would be
> quite a few months away at best.

Hmmm, and if ESRI provides it, then, like SDE, it probably won't be  
available for OSX (or other linux platforms?).  Bleh.

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