[mapserver-users] PGeo (Personal Geodatabases) options under Linux

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Chuck Jungmann wrote:
> I have a Personal Geodatabase (PGeo) from which I would like to display
> layers in MapServer on Ubuntu 9.04.  I have been fighting with MDBTools,
> unixODBC, and GDAL for what seems like forever.  The ogrinfo and isql
> fail with Segmentation Faults.
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1. Has anyone successfully used a PGeo file to display maps on MapServer
> under Linux?  Perhaps my efforts were doomed from the start.
> 
> 2. Since GDAL is using ODBC to read the MDB file, would using ODBC to
> access MySQL be a transparent replacement, assuming I copy all of the
> tables and indexes from the PGeo file to MySQL?  Has anyone done this?
> I don't want to waste a lot of time on this if it's another dead end.

Chuck,

There was a recent thread related to these problems on the GDAL list. 
Frank posted the follow link and commented that there are also probable 
some open bugs. Evidently, the mdbtools are not well supported and buggy 
which makes using them problematic.

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/mdbtools

Check out this thread on the gdal-dev archives:
[gdal-dev] mdb to shape conversion: no geometry exported

-Steve