[postgis-users] ESRI GDB format into PostGIS

[Simon Greener]

Paul et al,

> 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.

Or products that have been provided with enough instance examples to be able to reverse engineer. Manifold GIS is one such product. I don't have any GDB examples to check its ability to suck the data out.

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

Something I totally agree with. There was a brief discussion on "The Shapfile 2.0 Manifesto" (http://moreati.org.uk/blog/2009/03/01/shapefile-20-manifesto/) about what should replace the shapefile. The ESRI file based GeoDatatabase was discussion with Scott Morehouse himself telling everyone about a non ArcObjects based API that would open up interoperability etc (the usual smoke and mirrors). No talk about the format specs being donated to the public domain; nothing about how the API would be licensed. You will never see an FDO Provider from ESRI I would guess.  More of the same "do it our way or the highway"....

regards
Simon
> 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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>>
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