Dear Thierry, thanks for your quick response! I did try to load a local copy. But that did not work. There is actually lots of information about the data base online ( http://kart.klif.no/arcgis/rest/services/Miljostatus/Stoysoner_veg/MapServer ) but none of this seems to be helpful to load the map in R.
Best - Guido On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:31 AM, ONKELINX, Thierry <thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > wrote: > Dear Guido, > > Do you know how the gdb is stored? I had problems reading for a gdb on our > networkdrive. Reading from a local copy worked. It turned out that the > original copy on the networkdrive was indexed. Reading an unindexed gdb > from the networkdrive was no problem. > > Best regards, > > ir. Thierry Onkelinx > Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and > Forest > team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance > Kliniekstraat 25 > 1070 Anderlecht > Belgium > + 32 2 525 02 51 > + 32 54 43 61 85 > thierry.onkel...@inbo.be > www.inbo.be > > To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more > than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say > what the experiment died of. > ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher > > The plural of anecdote is not data. > ~ Roger Brinner > > The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not > ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. > ~ John Tukey > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > Namens Guido Biele > Verzonden: maandag 27 oktober 2014 9:20 > Aan: Michael Sumner > CC: r-help@r-project.org > Onderwerp: Re: [R] rgdal: Convert ESRI ArcGis geo database (gdb directory) > to geojson, or shapefile map > > Thanks, > Now I found the driver in the current rgdal version! > > Unfortunately I still can't open the database, even though the OpenfileGDB > driver is used. > When I list the layers > and then try to load one of the layers, I get the error message that no > features are found: > > ogrListLayers("Stoy.gdb") > [1] "veg_storbyomrader" "veg_traffikert_veg" > "flyplass_store_flyplasser" "bane_storbyomrader" > [5] "bane_traffikert_bane" > attr(,"driver") > [1] "OpenFileGDB" > attr(,"nlayers") > [1] 5 > > m = readOGR("Stoy.gdb",layer = "veg_storbyomrader") > Error in readOGR("Stoy.gdb", layer = "veg_storbyomrader") : > no features found > In addition: Warning message: > In ogrFIDs(dsn = dsn, layer = layer) : no features found > > > Is this likely due to the database, or could this be a problem with the > driver? > > In case that helps, here is the link to the map layer I want to extrac > (the link is to a web page, but I have the data base file). > > http://www.miljostatus.no/kart/?lang=no&extent=152517|6532562|210570|6557188&layers=147:46;20:100;138:100;&basemap=KART&opacity=71&saturation=90 > > Best - Guido > > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Michael Sumner <mdsum...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > This driver is present in the Windows binary on CRAN (at least it was > > in July): > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/attachments/20140710/5dda6bc4 > > /attachment.pl > > > > I'm not sure about on Linux, I thought it was there but I may have > > inadvertently switched to an older GDAL on some systems. I can try > > this out on a test VM though, I'm keen to have rgal-recipes for > > installing on various systems. > > > > Let me know if: > > 1) you want Windows or Linux > > 2) you want help building / installing on Linux (Ubuntu) > > > > (Compiling the Windows binary is hard and mysterious, but I'd love to > > be able to do that too. I can do all of it except the final .zip > > package bundle which I don't understand yet) > > > > Cheers, Mike. > > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Guido Biele > > <guido.bi...@neuro-cognition.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have an ESRI ArGis geo database directory which I would like to > > convert > > > to geojson or a shape file (or anything else that I can read into R). > > > > > > Unfortunately that does not work out of the box with rgdal, because > > > it > > does > > > not come with the fileGDB or openfileGDB driver. > > > I could successfully install gdal and the fileGDB driver/extension, > > > but > > it > > > seems that i can use gdal only to convert the gdb file to a SQL > database. > > > > > > So before I start to learn about SQL, I thought I ask if anybody can > > point > > > me to a tutorial or similar that explains how to convert the > > > contents of > > a > > > GDB folder to a R-readable format. > > > > > > I also wondered if it would be possible to let rgdal know that it > > > could access the required drivers because I installed them manually. > > > I would appreciate any hint about this too! > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > Best Guido > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Sumner > > Software and Database Engineer > > Australian Antarctic Division > > Hobart, Australia > > e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > * * * * * * * * * * * * * D I S C L A I M E R * * * * * * * * * * * * * > Dit bericht en eventuele bijlagen geven enkel de visie van de schrijver > weer en binden het INBO onder geen enkel beding, zolang dit bericht niet > bevestigd is door een geldig ondertekend document. > The views expressed in this message and any annex are purely those of the > writer and may not be regarded as stating an official position of INBO, as > long as the message is not confirmed by a duly signed document. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
