ESRI's file geodatabase format
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How to get “.GDB” (Esri File Geodatabase) support in Quantum GIS (osgeo4w - qgis)
Following questions:
Open Source Tool capable of Reading .gdb?
How to access file geodatabase in Qgis?
How to get FGDB support in GDAL 1.9 without compiling?
I have spent around 2 days to find the ...
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Can ESRI's File Geodatabase API be Redistributed?
ESRI's file geodatabase API can now be used with GDAL/OGR - http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html however each individual seems to have to login to ESRI and download the API files individually. For ...
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Creating a table containing all filenames (and possibly metadata) in a File Geodatabase
I need to create a metadata-table for all files in a File Geodatabase or Spatial Database. It would be awesome if it were possible to automatically be updated with new filenames, and possibly even ...
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How to get FGDB support in GDAL 1.9 without compiling?
I was hoping that I could use the 'master' (nightly-build) version of QGIS to get fgdb support without compiliing (I'm not a developer and frankly have wasted days of productive time trying to get ...
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How to distinguish between File and Personal Geodb workspace?
I am looking for a way - given an IWorkspace object - to check if it was created from a Personal-GDB or a File-GDB. I tried using IWorkspace.WorkspaceFactory to check if it's an instance of e.g. ...
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How to copy a fgdb using Python?
I am trying to copy fgdb from one path to another using Python.
copy(base.gdb,dest)
And got the message:
Error Info:
[Errno 13] Permission denied:
How to fix it?
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How to programmatically determine the size of a feature class in a file geodatabase?
My answer to the question How to get the size of a file geodatabase feature class on disk? shows how one can enable a column in ArcCatalog showing the file size of FGDB feature classes in the contents ...
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ogr2ogr / GDAL remove features in FileGDB while in use by ArcGIS Server map service
I'm using ogr2ogr to pull features out of Oracle and put them into a File GeoDatabase. The FGDB is being used by an active ArcGIS Server map service. This is all done for performance / reducing DB ...
