On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM, RichTC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'd be grateful if someone could advise on the quickest way to import ESRI > Personal Geodatabase into GRASS. > > A couple of questions: > > 1. Is it possible to directly import the mdb into GRASS after installing the > mdb driver?
"More or less" - AFAIK you need to register it as ODBC source then. http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/grass-odbc.html > 2. I've been using ogr2ogr (ogr2ogr --version GDAL 1.7.1, released > 2010/02/08) to convert the mdb to shapefiles (which I subsequently plan to > import into GRASS) but the geometry is not being created in the shapefile. > > Eg. > > ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -a_srs EPSG:4326 test_BWA_adm_ogr.shp > PGeo:sample_pgeo > ERROR 1: importFromWKT() failed on SRS 'GEOGCS["GCS_'. > ERROR 1: importFromWKT() failed on SRS 'GEOGCS["GCS_'. > ERROR 1: importFromWKT() failed on SRS 'GEOGCS["GCS_'. > Warning 6: Normalized/laundered field name: 'NAME_ENGLISH' to 'NAME_ENGLI' ... All I know is this... http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html > I'm running GRASS 6.4.0 RC7 on OpenSuse 11.3 (btw, consider to update to 6.4.0 final) Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
