RE: [gdal-dev] ogr and mdb conversion

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Green
] Sent: 27 October 2011 15:28 To: Chris Green Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] ogr and mdb conversion Chris, Try to convert the data to some other format using ogr2ogr. GML or Shapefile are very convenient. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Chris Green wrote: Hi I’m

[gdal-dev] ogr and mdb conversion

2011-10-27 Thread Chris Green
Hi I'm trying to get to a point where I can publish an .mdb dataset on Mapserver. Having tried for nearly a week to get OGR and the PGeo driver working on Linux (and not being willing to tackle building the MDB driver which involves compiling GDAL/OGR 1.9), I decided to try and get round my pro

RE: [gdal-dev] ogrinfo and PGeo Driver for .mdb file, on Ubuntu

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Green
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

RE: [gdal-dev] ogrinfo and PGeo Driver for .mdb file, on Ubuntu

2011-10-25 Thread Chris Green
d, yet I can't find anything for Ubuntu later than 1.8 (from UbuntuGIS unstable). Do you have 1.9 on your Ubuntu, if so could you tell me where I can find it? Chris From: Eli Adam [mailto:ea...@co.lincoln.or.us] Sent: 24 October 2011 19:32 To: Chris Green Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osge

[gdal-dev] ogrinfo and PGeo Driver for .mdb file, on Ubuntu

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Green
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 dire