[FWTools] ogr2ogr Personal Geodatabase conversion

[Frank Warmerdam]

chris hinkle wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> I tried to use ogr2ogr to convert a "Personal GeoDatabase" format from
> the USGS NHD dataset.
> 
> ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" [output dir] [data].mdb
> 
> But the conversion seemed ignore the geometry.
> 
> In MS Access, I can clearly see a that the table in question has a
> binary column, called Shape, and access displays the phrase "Long
> Binary Data"
> 
> But the output shapefile only has attributes, and no geometry.
> 
> Has anybody run into this problem before?

Chris,

I suspect the problem relates to:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1918

There is at least one set of geometry types not currently supported
by the driver, and it doesn't give much feedback on the issue.  If you
have a modest sized dataset demonstrating your problem that you could
make available, and file a bug on, I'd be willing to look into the issue
- to see if it is the same problem or not.

Best regards,
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