I'm not seeing those types of files in the directory. The message I get in Q is the file is "is not a valid or recognized dataset"
I'll look into the permissions on sharing the data and get back to you. Best, mike On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Even Rouault <even.roua...@mines-paris.org> wrote: > Le jeudi 24 juillet 2014 22:33:52, Michael Treglia a écrit : > > Even and Alex, > > > > Thanks! That definitely clarifies some things. > > > > I just tried two GDB files with ESRI FileGDB and OpenFileGDB in QGIS. One > > .gdb file worked fine with both ESRI FileGDB and OpenFileGDB. The other > > didn't work with either. I don't know what Arc version the latter was > > created in or anything, but I can try and find out and get back to you in > > the future. > > That would be interesting to see that database. By chance, are you seeing > .gdbtable.sdc files in the directory ? If so, then yes it is expected that > it > doesn't work with those (and neither the ESRI FileGDB can deal with them). > They are very special GDB highly compressed and meant for read-only, and > as a > side effect order of magnitude more difficult to reverse engineer that the > regular GDB. > > > > > Best regards, > > Mike > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:19 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 > > -- > Geospatial professional services > http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html >
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