[FWTools] PGeo driver examples and usage for windows and linux

[Stefan Keller]

Hi all,

I'm trying to convert an ESRI Personal GeoDatabase (.mdb) file.

1.) The documentation (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html) says that
"On Windows, no ODBC DSN is required." But given bahnhoefe.shp (.dbf/.shx)
on Windows: When I issue

     ogrinfo PGeo:bahnhoefe bahnhoefe

following error is produced (yes, 2 times):

    ERROR 1: Unable to initialize ODBC connection to DSN for bahnhoefe,
    [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no
default
    driver specified
    ERROR 1: Unable to initialize ODBC connection to DSN for bahnhoefe,
    [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no
default
    driver specified

2.) Is it difficult to adapt the MDB reader and make it standalone, i.e. not
depend on
ODBC but with a binary parser? This would also help linux users who now are
obliged
to install unixODBC and MDB Tools.

Any ideas?
Stefan
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