I'm really getting to like the idea of Open Source more and more! Check
this out from Frank Warmerdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. One more
proprietary GIS data format bites the dust!
Bill,
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.
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