I presume so. You just select the file, it gives you a list of layers, and the ones you select are loaded just like any other layer - they can be symbolised, saved as shapefiles etc. I think they may be read-only, but I'm not sure.
Alister > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Nesom > Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:59 a.m. > To: Alister Hood > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] RE: Create an ODBC connection > > actually connecting to an esri pgdb as odbc is not that useful. You > would have access to the database tables but not as geo-objects. > I assume that the vector layer connection will use ogr? > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Alister Hood > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Windows at least you should also be able to use it by > Layer-Add Vector Layer-File > I don't know how this compares with connecting to it as a > database. > Maybe it is read-only, but when connected to as a database it is > writeable, or something like that. Does anyone know? > > Regards, > Alister > > > Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:34:14 -0800 (PST) > > From: LeventB <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Qgis-user] Create an ODBC connection > > To: [email protected] > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > > Hi everybody! > > > > I am running QGis on a Windows OS and i want to load files from > an > ESRI > > personal geodatabase. > > In > > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Working-with-ESRI-mdb- > > geodatabase-file-td4668175.html > > this Thread Giovanni allready gave the advice: > > If you're working on Windows you should first create an ODBC > connection > > through Administrative Tools. > > > > I tried this, yet my knowledge ceases at the point where i have > to > > choose > > drivers. > > Can anyone tell me how exactly to establish this kind of > connection? > > > > Thanks, > > Levent > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
