Hi Eli
Thanks very much for the details. It all seems rather daunting, I think I
will punish myself with one more day of trying to get PGeo to work before
tackling MDB
Chris
From: Eli Adam [mailto:ea...@co.lincoln.or.us]
Sent: 25 October 2011 17:39
To: Chris Green
Cc:
Hi Eli
Thanks for your suggestion. Despite pulling most of my hair out I still
can't get past the syntax error thrown by the PGeo driver, so I would
certainly be interested to follow the alternative approach. However I see
in the drv_mdb documentation that GDAL/OGR =1.9.0 is required, yet I
Chris,
GDAL 1.9 is trunk so I built from source. You need to first install
subversion, a compiler and other things to compile software. Once you have
the proper environment, then for the basic GDAL build (which would not
include mdb of any sort) it is not too difficult and there are directions
Hi List
I'm hoping someone can help me make ogr work under Linux with the PGeo
driver, so I can read an ESRI Personal Database .mdb file into Mapserver. I
can see from old posts that the basic problem is that MDBTools is a bit
'flaky' and needs a DSN based connection rather than connecting
Chris,
There is also another route that may work for PGeo,
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html I recently built that on Ubuntu but
have not used it yet. It looks like you are close on the other route
though.
HTH, Eli
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Chris Green
