[R-sig-Geo] opening .gdb files

[Mark Trinder]

Sorry - just illustrating my ignorance of such things. I had assumed it
was a standard extension.

These are some form of GIS file ('geographic database'?), but I don't
know what program produced them. I think they can be opened in ARCGIS,
but I don't have access to that.

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: b.rowlingson at googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson at googlemail.com]
On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: 10 June 2009 11:41
To: Mark Trinder
Cc: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] opening .gdb files

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Mark
Trinder<Mark.Trinder at rpsgroup.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to open gdb files in R?
>
> If so what is the best package to use?
>
> I simply want to extract the location data from some gdb files, so
> nothing fancy!
>

 What's a gdb file? It could be a "GardenBoss Design" file apparently
(maybe you want to do kriging in your vegetable patch?). More likely
it's an "MapSource GPS Waypoint Database" or a "ArcView Geodatabase".

 Also, it seems that Garmin use .gdb for some of their data, but maybe
that's the same as a MapSource GPS Waypoint Database....

 A file extension is not a unique identifier of a file's type!

 Barry
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