Hi Calvin, On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:39 AM, C Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I notice that FGDB writing support seems to have been dropped from QGIS. > It was in 2.14, but not in 2.16 nor 2.18. What happened? Can it be included > back into QGIS? > FileGDB write support is provided by the GDAL/OGR FileGDB driver, which requires the FileGDB API SDK [0] (that happens to now be under the Apache 2 license [1]), not QGIS itself. When installing QGIS via the OSGeo4W installer, you also have to install the gdal-filegdb package, which is a plugin for GDAL/OGR that provides this write functionality; though, I am not sure which version of the SDK is currently included. In other words, the support was not dropped from QGIS, per se, but maybe just not included as a dependent package for GDAL/OGR, given its further proprietary library dependency. Upon looking at the 2.14 OSGeo4W 'full' packaging [2], I don't see that it is included, by default, there as well (at least, not anymore). There is also the read-only OpenFileGDB driver [3], included in GDAL/OGR 1.11+. While this does not allow writing, it can be used to dump data into a PostGIS setup (see page). [0] http://www.gdal.org/drv_filegdb.html [1] https://github.com/Esri/file-geodatabase-api [2] http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/x86_64/release/qgis/qgis-ltr-full/setup.hint [3] http://www.gdal.org/drv_openfilegdb.html Regards, Larry Shaffer Dakota Cartography Black Hills, South Dakota > Thanks, > > Calvin > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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