Re: Translator for ESRI geodatabase format

Hi Frank,
does ogr the conversation the other way round (shape2mdb) ?
I would need that.... 

Thanks,

Dieter


> 
> A consortium of uses recently funded me to implement read-only
> support for ESRI Personal Geodatabases.   All you need is the
> normal Microsoft Access ODBC driver - no ESRI software.
> 
> This is built into the latest FWTools builds from:
>   http://fwtools.maptools.org/
> 
> You could translate all the layers in a personal geodatabase
> to a directory of shapefiles like this (from the FWTools Shell):
> 
>   ogr2ogr out_shape_dir mydata.mdb
> 
> Some info on the driver is available at:
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html
> 
> The "Shape" column is reported as an OLE object but if read
> as a BLOB it matches the geometry format that appears in the .shp
> file of a shapefile.
> 
> PS. Thanks for asking the question in a public forum.  It gives
> me an excuse to "toot my own horn".
> 
> Best regards,
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