[Qgis-developer] What happened to FGDB writing support in QGIS?

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Calvin,

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:39 AM, C Hamilton <adenaculture at gmail.com> wrote:

> I notice that FGDB writing support seems to have been dropped from QGIS.
> It was in 2.14, but not in 2.16 nor 2.18. What happened? Can it be included
> back into QGIS?
>

FileGDB write support is provided by the GDAL/OGR FileGDB driver, which
requires the FileGDB API SDK [0] (that happens to now be under the Apache 2
license [1]), not QGIS itself. When installing QGIS via the OSGeo4W
installer, you also have to install the gdal-filegdb package, which is a
plugin for GDAL/OGR that provides this write functionality; though, I am
not sure which version of the SDK is currently included.

In other words, the support was not dropped from QGIS, per se, but maybe
just not included as a dependent package for GDAL/OGR, given its further
proprietary library dependency. Upon looking at the 2.14 OSGeo4W 'full'
packaging [2], I don't see that it is included, by default, there as well
(at least, not anymore).

There is also the read-only OpenFileGDB driver [3], included in GDAL/OGR
1.11+. While this does not allow writing, it can be used to dump data into
a PostGIS setup (see page).

[0] http://www.gdal.org/drv_filegdb.html
[1] https://github.com/Esri/file-geodatabase-api
[2]
http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/x86_64/release/qgis/qgis-ltr-full/setup.hint
[3] http://www.gdal.org/drv_openfilegdb.html

Regards,

Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota


> Thanks,
>
> Calvin
>
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