How do you add a feature class in a ESRI personal gdb in qgis. I understand this can be done through the option add vector layer and select geodatabase. But what after that ? It doesn't allow me to browse through .
The personal geodatabase is a proprietary format so it always was hard to read with software other than ESRI. Things changed recently and the new version of the GDAL/OGR library (the one that QGIS -as many other software- uses to handle vector and raster data) has support (don't know yet how good) for the personal geodatabases. This new version (1.9) is already out, now you have to wait a little to have QGIS compiled against this GDAL/OGR version. As soon as GDAL/OGR 1.9 will show in the osgeo4w installer I'm almost sure that the QGIS available in the same installer will works with that GDAL version under the hood.
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But then under personal geodatabase option why does it show ESRI over there in the current 1.7.3 version. – SNT Feb 22 '12 at 10:45
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Personal geodatabases (filename.mdb) have been available to qgis since at least 2008. File geodatabase (dirname.gdb) access on the other hand is much more recent and not yet mainstream. – matt wilkie Mar 23 '12 at 18:35
You can actually add ESRI personal geodatabase in QGIS from the add data options in file directory and just change the file type to ESRI personal geodatabase.
