[Qgis-user] FW: Esri File Geodatabase API Is Now Available

[Advrk Aplmrkt]

YES. Our lab is trying to get out of the ArcGIS licencing "trap" which
is prohibitively costly.
The key would be a relatively easy way for us to convert our existing
library of Arc geodatabases.
Hope such a feature appears in QGIS very soon.

On 7 June 2011 16:49, Spencer Gardner <spgardner at hntb.com> wrote:
> That's the kind of scenario that I'm interested in. I don't care so much whether I can make extensive use of .gdb in QGIS, but it would be nice to have some way to convert a .gdb to a useable format for those cases where I can't control the format of the data that I'm receiving.
>
> Spencer
>
>>I think they are targeting service based applications that need to
>>translate data for other uses, and given the low numbers of Mac servers
>>out there I'm not surprised. They also stuck to their officially
>>supported platforms which in the case of linux is actually only Redhat
>>and SUSE. The same platforms you can run their other products on.
>>
>>One interesting idea would be if someone setup a website that takes the
>>upload of a gdb and then offers the download of it's content in more
>>open formats.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Alex