[Qgis-user] FGDB and QGIS 1.8

[William Kyngesburye]

Compiled easily.  Seems to work.  But I'm very disappointed.

It only supports geodbs from ArcGIS 10+.  This is a limitation of the FileGDB API, not GDAL.  I couldn't find any info if this will change in the future.

This dashes my hopes of not needing ArcGIS to convert NHD data, which is released in FileGDB 9.3 format.


On Sep 18, 2012, at 8:47 AM, David Fawcett wrote:

> Wow, between this and the ArcGIS OGR plugin (under development), vendor lock-in may be temporarily less of an issue.  At least until they decide to tweak the formats and rules again...
> 
> https://github.com/RBURHUM/arcgis-ogr
> 
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:32 AM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> Well, I was going to say this wasn't possible, at least it isn't currently.  On a whim I checked Esri, and wow, they have a Mac version of their FileGDB API library now!
> 
> This will take a while for me to look into, but I expect I will release a plugin for my GDAL framework, providing the license allows it, then it should automatically be available in QGIS.  Stay tuned to my site.
> 
> On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:15 AM, Thomas Dalbert wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have QGIS 1.8.0 installed from KyngChaos on a Snow Leopard.
> >
> > Do I need to install or update something different to be able to read FGDB file directories?
> >
> > The "ESRI FileGDB" option is missing when I select to open a directory to add a vector layer.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thomas
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