Even, I believe that you meant that the ESRI FileGDB driver can only read files created by ArcGIS 10.0 or higher. Their driver does not work for 9.x files if I remember correctly.
David. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Even Rouault <even.roua...@mines-paris.org> wrote: > Le jeudi 24 juillet 2014 22:04:00, Alex Mandel a écrit : > > Sorta, there are 2 drivers for GDB. The open GDB that Even has been > > working on and the official ESRI GDB api. > > > > The ESRI GDB api and Arc instance are not backwards compatible, once you > > upgrade a gdb to the latest it only works with the latest and there's > > often no way to write an older variant. > > The ESRI FileGDB SDK can only read gdb that have been created by ArcGIS > 9.X. > The OpenFileGDB driver can (well, at least on all available samples I have > worked on). See http://gdal.org/drv_openfilegdb.html for a comparison of > both > drivers > > > > > The open GDB driver I think allows you to read any version and write > > older versions if you need to without auto-upgrading. > > Only reading. Writing hasn't been implemented although we probably have > almost > everything needed to implement it one day. > > > > > Back to your original question does the ESRI gdb driver work for you use > > case for now? On windows I think you can get it with OSGeo4w on Linux > > you need to download the SDK from ESRI and recompile GDAL - > > Latest OSGeo4W must have GDAL 1.11, so you won't need recompiling anything. > Check with "ogrinfo --formats" if OpenFileGDB shows in the list. > > > but I don't > > know if this is vector and raster or just vector. > > ESRI FileGDB SDK only supports vector too. So no closed-source or > open-source > solutions for raster yet. > > > > > Thanks, > > Alex > > > > On 07/24/2014 12:56 PM, Michael Treglia wrote: > > > Hi Even, > > > > > > Thanks a lot for the quick response - I really appreciate your work in > > > dealing with the GDB files! > > > > > > That sounds great! Let me know if you need more data examples and such. > > > > > > Just a quick question - .gdb is not typically forward and backward > > > compatible across Arc versions, right? [I've definitely had .gdb files > > > that don't work in QGIS, while some do, so I have assumed that it was > > > due to versioning issues - is that right? Or should I be doing some > > > trouble-shooting?] > > > > > > Thanks again, and best regards, > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Even Rouault > > > <even.roua...@mines-paris.org> > > > > > > wrote: > > >> Le jeudi 24 juillet 2014 18:19:14, Michael Treglia a écrit : > > >>> Hi All, > > >>> > > >>> I've Googled around, and it seems like this isn't currently possible, > > >>> but wanted to check with folks on this list for any solution... > > >>> > > >>> A lot of data being produced by agencies is now available only as > ESRI > > >> > > >> .gdb > > >> > > >>> files. A dataset I'm particularly interested in working with is a > > >>> gridded soil dataset ( > > >> > > >> > http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/soils/ref/?cid=nrcs142p2 > > >> _05 > > >> > > >>> 3628 ) > > >>> > > >>> These particular data are in raster format, stored as Arc 10.1 .gdb, > > >>> available from here: http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/GDGOrder.aspx > > >> > > >> Mike, > > >> > > >> When I reverse-engineered the vector part of FileGDB format that lead > to > > >> the > > >> OGR OpenFileGDB driver of GDAL 1.11, I came through a few raster GDB > > >> samples. > > >> Dealing with them was not in the scope of the work that was funded, > but > > >> from > > >> what I've seen, I've good hope that decoding them would be reachable. > > >> Would need some extra investigation of course to confirm and > > >> complementary funding... > > >> > > >> Best regards, > > >> > > >> Even > > >> > > >>> Any suggestions are appreciated. > > >>> > > >>> Thanks! > > >>> Mike > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Geospatial professional services > > >> http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Qgis-user mailing list > > > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > -- > Geospatial professional services > http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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