Hello, maybe a solution may be found at a lower level, using gdal java bindings with Jackcess (http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/), the library behind mdb-sqlite. This could be a simpler solution for all platforms besides Windows. c
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:06:48 William Kyngesburye wrote: > PGeo support depends on a working ODBC driver for MDB databases. On Linux, > this is done with mdbtools. I have not been able to get this working on OS X > with the system iODBC (I last looked at it a year ago). It compiles (with > some hackery), but does not load. I haven't tried mdbtools with UnixODBC, > mainly because I prefer to use stuff available from the system, and UnixODBC > is a large project. Maybe if I can whittle it down to a bare minimum needed > for mdbtools (and assuming it works), I could bundle it in the GDAL framework. > > There is a commercial Actual Access iODBC driver (apparently it's derived > from mdbtools), but it corrupts binary data when reading. I've reported this > to the developers, and pestered them, but so far they haven't been able to > fix it. > > One alternative option that I haven't followed up on yet (mainly lack of C++ > skills, also lack of need) is to convert the mdb to sqlite with the > mdb-sqlite java tool (http://code.google.com/p/mdb-sqlite/), then write a > custom pgeo driver that reads the pgeo data from sqlite instead of ODBC/MDB. > This wouldn't mirror the pgeo driver exactly as a feature (requires a > separate external step), but it's _something_. > > On Jun 25, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Bob Cave wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I see that OGR supports reading ESRI Personal Geodatabases. We are >> considering adding this capability to our product, which has both Windows >> and Mac OS X implementations. I have tried the basic functionality on >> Windows (using FW_Tools), and the OGR documentation has instructions for >> using the reader on Linux, but I don't see any information about OS X. Has >> anyone used it on OS X? If so, what were the major issues that needed to be >> resolved? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bob >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/OGR-Accessing-ESRI-Personal-Geodatabase-on-OS-X-tp5223574p5223574.html >> Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> gdal-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
