[mapserver-users] Mapserver and GDB files

[Paul Ramsey]

Write an ArcGIS script to do all the work :) ArcGIS can export to
Shape file and can read lyr files.

Heck: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12766

P.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Raivo Alla <snaperski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you all very much for answers.
> I am working on a project, where all data is in .gdb files and styles in
> ArcGIS .lyr format.
> I guess both - getting .gdb and .lyr files working in mapserver environment
> - are at the moment not possible?
> So I must convert convert .gdb files (using FME maybe?) to some readable
> format like shapefiles (if possible) and
> just type manually mapserver symbology files... uhh.
>
>
> Raivo
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -----
>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
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>>
>> - Marvin
>>
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