[Qgis-user] ArcGis mdb file

[John C. Tull]

Although I am pretty certain that format requires Windows as an Access  
lib is used by gdal. So no joy on Linux or OS X without a virtual  
machine.

Regards,
John

On Jun 14, 2008, at 5:29 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

> 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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> 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
>>
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