[Qgis-user] Re: ArcInfo gdb file system

[Brad Nesom]

to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder structure
with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in
that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file. There
are differences in the two files. Easily identifiable though because one is
a folder. the other a single file.
If the USFS was providing data sets it is probably ESRI. If they were
providing wildlife tracks it very well could be GPS data.
GPSBabel I think is still free. There should be a few formats for output
including ESRI shapefile.
HTH

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, <mtnbiketrail at zzz.com> wrote:

> I found an email thread that says how to manually convert it using
> GPSBabel. But it was for Garmin gdb, not ESRI. I'm not sure what the
> difference, if any, is. There is a DNRGarmin plugin into ESRI that is
> supposed to work, but again, I don't have ArcView.
>
> The gdb data is from the USFS. Maybe I will ask them for shapefiles.
>
> thanks,
> Tom
>
> > ESRI only recently released the file gdb format from proprietary. I doubt
> > there is anything in the open source plugin world yet. However I am sure
> > that it will become a popular plugin as soon as someone digs into it.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, <mtnbiketrail at zzz.com> wrote:
> >
> >> How do I handle gdb files? I don't have ESRI program. Does QGIS have a
> >> way
> >> of importing these?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Tom
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