[R-sig-Geo] Building Windows binary of rgdal package to include PGeo driver for reading ESRI personal geodatabases.

[Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini]

On 07/02/12 16:57, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Michael Denslow
> <michael.denslow at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Sorry to join this discuss late, but I have also been curious about
>> reading ESRI geodatabases since I teach with ArcGIS and work with
>> rgdal for my own research purposes. I have two questions that I hope
>> are not too off topic.
>>
>> 1. I have the most recent rgdal version (rgdal_0.7-8) build from
>> source and Pgeo driver list says FALSE. I am using MAC OS 10.6. Can
>> you point me to documentation to use this on Mac OS?
>>
>> 2. Alternatively, I noticed that GDAL 1.9 has a new driver for .mdb
>> (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News). However this
>> makes reference to Pgeo.
>> Will this driver change things significantly?
>>
>> I am still using GDAL 1.8 downloaded from
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks.
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts and/or advice,
>> Michael
> I just read your email just after reading this blog entry:
>
> http://www.structuralknowledge.com/2012/02/03/why-esri-as-is-cant-be-part-of-the-open-government-movement/

Thank you very much Barry for sharing such interesting post about the 
new proprietary format of ESRI !.

All the best,

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

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