[Qgis-user] ArcGis mdb file

[Jeff McKenna]

GDAL does have read support for mdb files (http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html)....so 
  you should be able to use GDAL's ogr2ogr utility to convert your mdb  
into a readable format for QGIS.

--jeff


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Jeff McKenna
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On 14-Jun-08, at 7:37 AM, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> 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
>