This is because something changed in ArcGIS >= 10.x on how they apply the BC Albers projection (EPSG:3005).
Those datasets now have to be opened in ArcGIS and the projection has to be "Defined" as BC Albers, because it's using PCS_Albers (projection name), gdal sees this as a "custom projection" so it won't list any layers. This is annoying, because BC Albers and PCS_Albers, besides the difference in name, have the exact same parameters. I've tried to contact the GeoBC folks when this came up, but didn't get a response. Simply asking them to please assign the BC Albers projection to the DRA and the FWA so that we can access it using the FileGDB API via GDAL (or QGIS!). I posted in the ArcGIS forums to discover this [0]. [0] http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/100486-Is-BC_Albers-being-incorrectly-identified-as-PCS_Albers-It-s-corrupting-my-data . On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Randal Hale < rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> wrote: > I was able to open FWA_Watershed_Boundaries_SP.gdb in ArcGIS 10.2 - but > not in QGIS 2.2. > > OGRinfo would open it - but I couldn't seem to get a list of layers. > > Randy > > > > ----------------- > Randal Hale, GISP > North River Geographic Systems, > Inchttp://www.northrivergeographic.com423.653.3611 > rjh...@northrivergeographic.com > twitter:rjhalehttp://about.me/rjhale > > On 03/27/2014 01:05 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:32 AM, cdp <cdapo...@synergyaspen.ca> wrote: > >> The data is supposed to be an Esri file geodatabase created with ArcGIS >> 10.1. >> >> The data is stream network data from the BC provincial government and can >> be found at the following FTP location if anyone wants to try it out on >> their end (no login info required) >> >> ftp.geobc.gov.bc.ca/pub/outgoing/FWA_Public >> >> There you will find 4 zipped files. Download the smallest of them and let >> me >> know what you find. that should be >> >> FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb.zip >> > > ogrinfo -al just reports: > INFO: Open of `FWA_LINEAR_BOUNDARIES_SP.gdb' > using driver `FileGDB' successful. > > I'm able to open other FileGDBs. I wonder if someone with ArcGIS can > open this file? > > Clifford > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing > listQgis-user@lists.osgeo.orghttp://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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