[postgis-users] ArcGIS Mobile slightly off-topic question

[David Fawcett]

For reading the personal geodatabase, don't forget that on Windows,
OGR can read the data without using ODBC.
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html

As long as you have an ArcInfo license, the ESRI python to read and
write to the geodatabase is really pretty straight forward.  (it
doesn't run as fast as the OS stuff, but the documentation is better
and the user community is much larger)

What exactly was your data flow again?

attributes and geometries from pgeodb to postgis and then attributes
and geoms back to the geodatabase?

David.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Martin Davis <mbdavis at refractions.net> wrote:
> That's correct - in a Personal GDB, the BLOB field holding the geometry has
> the same format as individual geometries in the Shapefile format.
>
> Reading a PGDB is thus relatively easy.  Writing them is probably a whole
> lot harder, because there's a bunch of metadata/spatial index stuff that
> would need to be written as well IIRC.
>