[postgis-users] ESRI GDB format into PostGIS

[Paul Ramsey]

Bended knee. You've been supplied with a "file base geodatabase" and
the only things that will open it are ESRI products or things
licensing ESRI products.

http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2009/04/esri-formats-back-to-future.html

P

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Ben Madin <ben at remoteinformation.com.au> wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> As part of a research project I have generously been sent a copy of state
> road networks, in a NETWORK.gdb folder, with about 180 files inside it.
>
> I (mistakenly) thought this was something I could import into PostGIS using
> shp2pgsql (No) or ogr2ogr (using the PGeo Driver, but if it is I can't find
> the appropriate file to do it with... trying
>
> $ ogrinfo NETWORK.gdb/gdb
>
> I just get
> FAILURE:
> Unable to open datasource `NETWORK.gdb/gdb' with the following drivers.
>  -> GRASS
>  -> ESRI Shapefile
>  -> MapInfo File
>  -> UK .NTF
>  -> SDTS
>  -> TIGER
>  -> S57
>  -> DGN
>  -> VRT
>  -> REC
>  -> Memory
>  -> BNA
>  -> CSV
>  -> GML
>  -> GPX
>  -> KML
>  -> GeoJSON
>  -> Interlis 1
>  -> Interlis 2
>  -> GMT
>  -> SQLite
>  -> DODS
>  -> ODBC
>  -> PGeo
>  -> OGDI
>  -> PostgreSQL
>  -> MySQL
>  -> XPlane
>  -> AVCBin
>  -> AVCE00
>  -> Geoconcept
>
>
> Is this another type of geodatabase... have I missed something? I don't seem
> to be able to open it with uDig or QGIS. I don't have any ESRI products (and
> I'm a student working remotely!) Is my only option to go back on bended knee
> and ask if they can export the data in a different format (I don't want to
> stretch a favour here - they say they only provide the data in their own
> format)
>
> cheers
>
> Ben
>
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