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How does one access data from an Esri file geodatabase in Quantum GIS?

I've seen snippets of conversation that indicate it's possible with qgis 1.7+ and gdal 1.9+ but no clear recipe.

I recognize that in a few months or a year this will likely be a non question ("just click [add data] button"), but today, I'm stumped. ;-)

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Just use OSGeo4W and install the gdal-filegdb package. I compiled and uploaded the binaries to include them as part of the distribution.

How to get ".GDB" (Esri File Geodatabase) support in Quantum GIS (osgeo4w - qgis) has a step by step recipe.

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are you sure? the package listing only shows gdal-filegdb v1.8, and doesn't seem to change anything for me. In any case I'll follow up in the o4w mailing list as this is probably more relevant there. – matt wilkie♦ Mar 26 '12 at 21:17
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...answer now accepted, as I determined the problems I was experiencing had to do with our unsupported "custom" coordinate system (see comments on linked step-by-step recipe). Thanks for contributing the driver Ragi! – matt wilkie♦ Jun 1 '12 at 15:55
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As far as I understand it you need GDAL 1.9 but you need to compile it for Windows

gdal/ogr [1.9]

copy compiled files to

\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\bin\FileGDBAPI.dll

\Quantum GIS Wroclaw \bin\gdalplugins\ogr_FileGDB

http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/PackageList.aspx?file=release-1600-dev.zip

To add the File Geodatabase to QGIS Add vector layer, select the Directory radio button in the file browser & select a filename.gdb directory

or wait for the next version of QGIS 1.7.5?

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no, it will work both on windows and linux (and whatever). You have to download the File GDB Esri API and compild GDAL linking it. Then compile QGIS ;) – capooti Mar 23 '12 at 23:57

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