[postgis-users] mdb files

Arnaud Lesauvage thewild at freesurf.fr
Mon Oct 30 00:08:40 PST 2006


Will Muir a écrit :
> Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with mdb files, on  
> either the Mac or Linux?  Preferably I would like to convert them to  
> a Postgis database.  I see there is a package called mdbtools, though  
> it does not seem to want to compile on the Mac and I have not tried  
> on Linux yet.  But even if it does work will  the results be in a  
> format that could be inserted into Postgis?

If this is only for a one-time use, maybe you could try some 
kind of virtual machine ?
You don't even need MSAccess to open the mdb, you could 
write a script that would read it with an ADO or DAO connection.

--
Arnaud



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