[Qgis-developer] ESRI File Geodatabase (*.gdb) API for Window and Linux now

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11-02-20 05:13 PM, Noli Sicad wrote:
> JFYI.
>
> ESRI File Geodatabase (*.gdb) API for Window and Linux now. If I
> understand it correctly, we can read and write FGDB (*.gdb) using this
> API.
>
> http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/geodatabase/archive/2011/02/11/File-geodatabase-API-Beta-2-now-available-for-Linux.aspx
>
> Any plans to support it in QGIS 2.0?

Noli,

Ragi Burhum has done the bulk of an implementation of an OGR provider
based on the ESRI FileGDB SDK.  I think there may still be some limits
on the types of geometry supported but that should be easily corrected.

This work is in GDAL/OGR "trunk".

   gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/filegdb/


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