[postgis-users] How to Import ESRI Geodatabase format .gdb created by ArcGIS 9.3.1?

[Martin Feuchtwanger]

I ran into the same problem. Luckily, my data provider re-exported the 
4.5GB GDB file for me, using the newer ArcGIS 10.
Here's a heads-up for two /other /potential problems, though:

 1. The second GDB still wouldn't load because the data were saved as
    having a "custom" SRS (spatial ref sys). The FileGDB utility that
    ogr2ogr uses -- and as provided by Esri -- will only work on a
    "standard" SRS. Luckily, my data provider again (cheerfully?)
    re-exported the 4.5GB GDB file for me, using a standard SRS!
 2. There was a problem with OGR in the change from 1.9.1 (2012/05/15)
    to 1.9.2 (2012-10-08), when using FileGDB. The ogr2ogr process won't
    work using version 1.9.2 -- but will when using 1.9.1. (The cause:
    incompatible Visual Studio compilations of ogr2ogr and fileGDB.)

Hope that helps save you most of the time that i wasted ;-)

Martin Feuchtwanger  feumar at shaw.ca  604-254-0361
302 - 1429 E 4th Ave,  Vancouver, BC  V5N 1J6
http://members.shaw.ca/geomatics.developer

On 26/01/2013 1:56 PM, Stephen V. Mather wrote:
> AFAI know, all 9.x FGDBs are a locked inaccessible format to all 
> without ArcGIS license.  Problem fixed with 10.x w/ release of a 
> library, but no help for 9.x trapped data.
>
> Steve Mather
>
> On Jan 26, 2013, at 4:47 PM, "charlie" <carowan at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:carowan at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>> I downloaded a large 1.5G file saved in the ESRI Geodatabase format ( 
>> .gdb -Not the ESRI Personal Geodatabase, which is supported) that I 
>> am looking to import into a PostGIS database.  According to the 
>> metadata, ArcGIS 9.3.1 was used to create the .gdb database.
>>
>> I checked both:  ogr2ogrhttp://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html 
>> <http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html>
>> and http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html, which offers a 
>> solution, but only for ArcGIS versions 10.0 and above.
>>
>> Is anyone aware of a utility or solution  that supports importing a 
>> ESRI Geodatabase created by ArcGIS 9.3.1?
>>
>> Charli
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