Le samedi 22 septembre 2012 00:59:43, Bernd Vogelgesang a écrit : > Hi there, > from a talk at the German User Meeting today in Kassel (thanx to Claas for > the organization), i got the impression that ONE important thing in qgis > is still missing: > Direct support for normal access databases! > > Personal geodatabases work like a charm now (many thanx for this!), but i > was told, that a lot of people who would be the perfect target group for > qgis, still work on a completely gis-free level, dealing with their data > in normal access databases or even worse formats. > > To catch those people and show them the light, it seems to me to be > crucial, that qgis would be able to add/join/edit normal tables from > normal access database as well without having to do such odbc-magic apprx. > 99% of the world population have never heard of. > > Here > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/direct-mdb-read-in-QGis-td4637313.html > i found a "solution" for geeks, but how about those people like me or john > doe, who have no idea about how to compile gdal with other stuff but are > merely able to do some gis work? > > I couldn'd find a feature request on the hub on this matter, so i wonder > if this would be a good feature request, or whether there are technical, > legal or "political" constraints preventing such a support so far. > > As far as i understand ESRI personal geodatabases are just some pimped > access databases, so the impossibility to just load such in qgis is a > mystery to me. > > Can anybody shed some light on this issue?
I've just added some magic to the OGR ODBC driver in GDAL trunk (GDAL 2.0dev) so that it can open directly non-spatial MDB databases on Windows. Note: this is just a shortcut for the "normal" syntax that should work currently : ogrinfo ODBC:DRIVER=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb);DBQ=filename.mdb Now : ogrinfo filename.mdb Best regards, Even _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
