Un-parseable file db

[forkandwait]

Hi there,

I have been using the excellent ogr2ogr gdb extension, but I found a database that it can't open, the Washington state soils database downloads (both statewide and per-county):

https://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/app1/dataweb/dmmatrix.html#Soils

Note that I found geometry problems even after opening in ESRI and exporting to shapefile and playing with that using ogr2ogr.

Not sure where else to post this, will also post to the GDAL trac site.

Thanks!

[rouault]

Works for me with https://fortress.wa.gov/dnr/app1/data/itd/Asotin_soils.zip :

and python dump_gdbtable/dump_gdbtable.py Asotin_soils/soils.gdb/a00000027.gdbtable

[forkandwait]

Here is what I just ran that generated errors (silly windows machine at work via mingw). (I don't have python in my path yet, so I haven't experimented with the python scripts):

GDAL_experiments/ (j=0,r=1)$ ogrinfo --version
GDAL 1.12dev, released 2014/04/16

GDAL_experiments/ (j=0,r=1)$ ogrinfo -al 'C:\Users\webbs\Desktop\GDAL_experiments\Asotin_soils\Asotin_soils\soils.gdb'
ERROR 1: Error: Failed to open Geodatabase (This release of the GeoDatabase is either invalid or out of date.)

ERROR 1: Error: Failed to open Geodatabase (This release of the GeoDatabase is either invalid or out of date.)

FAILURE:
Unable to open datasource `C:\Users\webbs\Desktop\GDAL_experiments\Asotin_soils\Asotin_soils\soils.gdb' with the following drivers.
-> FileGDB

Thanks!

[rouault]

It looks like you don't have the OpenFileGDB driver configured for some reason. Try adding "-ro" to your ogrinfo command line.

[forkandwait]

I tried add "-ro" and it still fails. ... (edit:) until I uninstall the file GDB add in based on ESRI's SDK (must have been defaulting to that)! Good work on your part!

Getting my binaries here:

http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/PackageList.aspx?file=release-1600-x64-gdal-mapserver.zip

[rouault]

Does OpenFileGDB appears in "ogrinfo --formats" ? It should normally. If it doesn't then it is likely a configuration problem.

[forkandwait]

Yes, it does now. I think ogrXXX was hitting FileGDB first. I am inexperienced with GDAL, so I don't know why.