

This will add the Medibuntu repository, import the Medibuntu GPG key and make the new packages available. Sudo aptitude update & sudo aptitude install medibuntu-keyring & sudo aptitude update Setting up this third-party repository can be done by way of a few quick commands: This post is an update to a previous article I wrote, this time specific to Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”.Īs mentioned above, the first thing that you’ll need to configure is the addition of the Medibuntu repositories. Did you know there are also other applications available, like Google Earth? It appears that a lot of you enable the Medibuntu repository right away and take advantage of that for media and codecs. mdb file you want then I don't mind doing the conversion for you and putting the output somewhere accessible, but if you have a lot to do I think its better you configure your system so you can do it.Recently I blogged about “ What Do You Do Post-Install?” to find out what little tweaks everyone applies to their systems on a fresh machine. I can read the PGDB into R with all this config and setup, eg: library(sf) mdb for layers: $ ogrinfo PGeo:ec10a01Īnd I could use ogr2ogr to convert these to something less troublesome, like a GeoPackage (which could be read simply into R using the sf package). With that complete I can for example query the. You need to install ODBC tools and drivers.

There is a driver for GDAL/OGR so it can be read by open source tools, but there is some configuration required.

mdb file is an ESRI Personal GeoDatabase file. The historical data for MD was also used in the creation of these shoreline erosion datasets found here Īs mentioned in comments, the. If there are other ways to get this data besides through Google Earth, I'm open to alternative solutions. I then try to save the file like mdb-export ec10a01.mdb t00267line > t00267line.csvĪnd I get a corrupted file that seems like it has some shape data in it that I'm not accessing right. mdb-tables ec10a01.mdbĪnd see there are files t00267line_SHAPE_Index t00267line in the database. I'm using Ubuntu, so I downloaded mdbtools. I download shoreline extract for table T-00267, and get a Microsoft database file called ec10a01.mdb For a birthday present for my father-in-law, I want to get historical shoreline data viewable in Google Earth into a format I can read into R and use with the sf package, specifically table T-00267, that I will incorporate into a map of his neighborhood.
