[Qgis-user] ArcGis mdb file

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:19 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> How? I do have MDB tools, but don't see how
> I can open the arcgis mdb file (which has geographic information)
> with QGIS.
> I can open the tables with MDBTools, but cannot
> open the mdb file as I do with a shp file in QGIS.
> 
> Agus
> 
> Ralf Suhr wrote:
> > In general yes, but the geometry-column has a format, that I don't know to 
> > convert.
> > For mbd-access http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Ralf Suhr
> > 
> > Am Samstag 14 Juni 2008 schrieb Agustin Lobo:
> >> Can arc gis mdb files be opened with  qgis
> >> under linux (ubuntu)?
> >> Thanks
> >> Agus

I am also interested in this. Till now I just open an .mdb file with
gmdb2 0.6pre1 (a gnome mdb viever) and export as .csv

>From this point it is easy to import in openoffice.Calc or import in
GRASS' data base and then play around with it (in GRASS or QGIS).

Greets,

Nikos