I will offer the same for the esri file. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Sam Vekemans <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well, if it is the garmin .gdb format, if you send me the file, i can > open it up, and save it as a .gpx file. > > > gpsmapedit, can also open up the garmin files. > > > cheers, > sam > > On 4/25/11, Brad Nesom <[email protected]> wrote: > > to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder > structure > > with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in > > that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file. There > > are differences in the two files. Easily identifiable though because one > is > > a folder. the other a single file. > > If the USFS was providing data sets it is probably ESRI. If they were > > providing wildlife tracks it very well could be GPS data. > > GPSBabel I think is still free. There should be a few formats for output > > including ESRI shapefile. > > HTH > > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I found an email thread that says how to manually convert it using > >> GPSBabel. But it was for Garmin gdb, not ESRI. I'm not sure what the > >> difference, if any, is. There is a DNRGarmin plugin into ESRI that is > >> supposed to work, but again, I don't have ArcView. > >> > >> The gdb data is from the USFS. Maybe I will ask them for shapefiles. > >> > >> thanks, > >> Tom > >> > >> > ESRI only recently released the file gdb format from proprietary. I > >> > doubt > >> > there is anything in the open source plugin world yet. However I am > sure > >> > that it will become a popular plugin as soon as someone digs into it. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> How do I handle gdb files? I don't have ESRI program. Does QGIS have > a > >> >> way > >> >> of importing these? > >> >> > >> >> thanks, > >> >> Tom > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Qgis-user mailing list > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > -- > --- > Across Canada Trails - Beyond 2017 - The National Trails Network > Victoria, BC Canada > > Twitter: @Acrosscanada > Blog: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans > Skype: 'Sam Vekemans' > > Member, CommonMap Inc. http://commonmap.org/ > IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #CommonMap > Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn > >
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