Well, if it is the garmin .gdb format, if you send me the file, i can open it up, and save it as a .gpx file.
gpsmapedit, can also open up the garmin files. cheers, sam On 4/25/11, Brad Nesom <[email protected]> wrote: > to help clarify. The file geodatabase format for esri is a folder structure > with a name like mydata.gdb (folder name). There are many, many files in > that folder. The file containing gps data would be the garmin file. There > are differences in the two files. Easily identifiable though because one is > a folder. the other a single file. > If the USFS was providing data sets it is probably ESRI. If they were > providing wildlife tracks it very well could be GPS data. > GPSBabel I think is still free. There should be a few formats for output > including ESRI shapefile. > HTH > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I found an email thread that says how to manually convert it using >> GPSBabel. But it was for Garmin gdb, not ESRI. I'm not sure what the >> difference, if any, is. There is a DNRGarmin plugin into ESRI that is >> supposed to work, but again, I don't have ArcView. >> >> The gdb data is from the USFS. Maybe I will ask them for shapefiles. >> >> thanks, >> Tom >> >> > ESRI only recently released the file gdb format from proprietary. I >> > doubt >> > there is anything in the open source plugin world yet. However I am sure >> > that it will become a popular plugin as soon as someone digs into it. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> How do I handle gdb files? I don't have ESRI program. Does QGIS have a >> >> way >> >> of importing these? >> >> >> >> thanks, >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Qgis-user mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > -- --- Across Canada Trails - Beyond 2017 - The National Trails Network Victoria, BC Canada Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: 'Sam Vekemans' Member, CommonMap Inc. http://commonmap.org/ IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #CommonMap Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
