<div dir="ltr">This is because something changed in ArcGIS >= 10.x on how they apply the BC Albers projection (EPSG:3005).<div><br></div><div>Those datasets now have to be opened in ArcGIS and the projection has to be "Defined" as BC Albers, because it's using PCS_Albers (projection name), gdal sees this as a "custom projection" so it won't list any layers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This is annoying, because BC Albers and PCS_Albers, besides the difference in name, have the exact same parameters.</div><div><br></div><div>I've tried to contact the GeoBC folks when this came up, but didn't get a response. Simply asking them to please assign the BC Albers projection to the DRA and the FWA so that we can access it using the FileGDB API via GDAL (or QGIS!).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I posted in the ArcGIS forums to discover this [0].</div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/100486-Is-BC_Albers-being-incorrectly-identified-as-PCS_Albers-It-s-corrupting-my-data">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/100486-Is-BC_Albers-being-incorrectly-identified-as-PCS_Albers-It-s-corrupting-my-data</a>.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Randal Hale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjhale@northrivergeographic.com" target="_blank">rjhale@northrivergeographic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I was able to open
FWA_Watershed_Boundaries_SP.gdb in ArcGIS 10.2 - but not in QGIS
2.2. <br>
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OGRinfo would open it - but I couldn't seem to get a list of
layers. <br>
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Randy<br>
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On 03/27/2014 01:05 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:32 AM, cdp
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdaponte@synergyaspen.ca" target="_blank">cdaponte@synergyaspen.ca</a>></span>
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<div style="overflow:hidden">The data
is supposed to be an Esri file geodatabase created with
ArcGIS<br>
10.1.<br>
<br>
The data is stream network data from the BC provincial
government and can<br>
be found at the following FTP location if anyone wants
to try it out on<br>
their end (no login info required)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/pub/outgoing/FWA_Public" target="_blank">ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/pub/outgoing/FWA_Public</a><br>
<br>
There you will find 4 zipped files. Download the
smallest of them and let me<br>
know what you find. that should be<br>
<br>
FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb.zip</div>
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ogrinfo -al just reports:</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">INFO: Open of
`FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb'</div>
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using driver `FileGDB' successful.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I'm able to open other FileGDBs. I
wonder if someone with ArcGIS can open this file? </div>
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