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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 co...

...gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.geo/13571 (link to gmane because it crosses a month boundary). You did join that thread, and said there that you are using OSX. You were able to open Pgeo files, I think. Are you thinking of the new file geodatabase format? If you read: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html you will see that you must build GDAL linking to the proprietary FileGDB API SDK, which requires an ESRI global account. Reading the OGR format file would tell you that, no? Roger > > I am very interested in this issue since I am a regular user of ArcGIS > (teaching) and R (re...