Opening ESRI Personal Geodatabases in QGIS In the more recent 64-bit versions of QGIS it is no longer possible to open ESRI personal geodatabases using the 'Add vector layer' functionality. However, it is possible to enable access to personal ... read more Posted by Steve Ellwood 01 March 2017 Categories: ArcGIS GIS (general) Quantum GIS (QGIS) Comments(4)
QGIS field calculator backslash gotcha Quantum GIS has a powerful field calculator, similar to that in ArcGIS, and described here. I was using it to update a tile index shapefile for use with GeoServer and a folder full of georeferenced... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 28 February 2013 Categories: Quantum GIS (QGIS) Comments(0)
Inspecting web service requests from Quantum GIS with Fiddler When connecting to any mapping web service, such as a WMS of WFS, just occasionally things don’t work first time (or is that just me…?). When this happens it is useful to be able to inspect the HTTP... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 04 June 2012 Categories: Fiddler MapServer Quantum GIS (QGIS) WMS Comments(0)
Some jottings on SQL Azure and GIS I have set up a SQL Azure 90 day trial (as of 18th November) to test whether ArcSquirrel can work ... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 19 November 2011 Categories: ArcGIS Azure GIS (general) GISquirrel MS Access OGR/GDAL Quantum GIS (QGIS) SQL Server Comments(1)