Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Anna Petrášová
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Dave Roberts wrote: > Rich, > >I'm working on a page for my tutorial on "GRASS for Ecologists" called > "Living with ESRI". Let me know how your project works out so I can benefit > from your experience. > > Dave Awesome, please share it here once you are fin

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Dave Roberts wrote: I'm working on a page for my tutorial on "GRASS for Ecologists" called "Living with ESRI". Let me know how your project works out so I can benefit from your experience. Dave, Okay. Rich ___ grass-user ma

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Dave Roberts
Rich, I'm working on a page for my tutorial on "GRASS for Ecologists" called "Living with ESRI". Let me know how your project works out so I can benefit from your experience. Dave On 10/27/16 11:13, Rich Shepard wrote: Dave, Yes, I have/had this; don't know if it's still on the hard

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Dave Roberts wrote: I would look at the excellent MDB-tools package (http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net). mdb-export will pull a specific layer out of the mdb file. Unless it's a point coverage it's not going to contain spatial data though, and even for point coverages it'

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: See http://www.gdal.org/drv_pgeo.html try accordingly to this GDAL driver manual ogrinfo to your mdb files. it works for me on windows and linux to read personal geodatabases with the . Mdb extension. Helmut, Thank you. This is good information.

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Dave Roberts
Rich, I would look at the excellent MDB-tools package (http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net). mdb-export will pull a specific layer out of the mdb file. Unless it's a point coverage it's not going to contain spatial data though, and even for point coverages it's rare to the the point coordinat

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
Rich Shepard wrote > On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Randal Hale wrote: > >> The MXD files are just ArcGIS Map documents. They will hold no data - >> only >> symbology. > > Randy, > >Therefore, useless to me. > >> You'll need to get your data out of the personal geodatabase files (the >> .mdb files).

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Randal Hale wrote: The MXD files are just ArcGIS Map documents. They will hold no data - only symbology. Randy, Therefore, useless to me. You'll need to get your data out of the personal geodatabase files (the .mdb files). It's been a while since I've tackled that - I

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Donovan Cameron wrote: Hey Rich, the .mxd files are project files for ESRI's ArcGIS and don't really contain any "data". They can be opened with ArcMap for example and are used to mostly conduct geospatial analysis and map production. Donovan, Interesting. That's the pr

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Randal Hale
The MXD files are just ArcGIS Map documents. They will hold no data - only symbology. You'll need to get your data out of the personal geodatabase files (the .mdb files). It's been a while since I've tackled that - I wrote a tutorial for doing this in QGIS. People have had hit or miss luck wit

Re: [GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Donovan Cameron
Hey Rich, the .mxd files are project files for ESRI's ArcGIS and don't really contain any "data". They can be opened with ArcMap for example and are used to mostly conduct geospatial analysis and map production. The other files you have, .mdb may contain the spatial data but I think that data

[GRASS-user] Vector file import formats

2016-10-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a 90 files that are supposed to be figures but have the Microsoft Access .mdb extension and another 88 files with ARC/GIS .mxd extensions. When I look at supported formats for v.in.ogr I don't see either of those after sorting the list (why isn't it sorted anyway?). Is there a way to i