Try Manifold System: www.manifold.net

I don't know of any free tools that can read "ESRI geodatabase" (the new
style). 
OGR (part of GDAL) can read the MDB "ESRI geodatabase" (old style), but
that is just built on Microsoft's Access format. 

See this for OGR access to the old style: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html
HTH

Regards, Mike.

==============Original message text===============
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:49:26 +1000 "Mark Trinder" wrote:

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@googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson@googlemail.com]
On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: 10 June 2009 11:41
To: Mark Trinder
Cc: r-sig-geo@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@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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