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I'm trying to use the admin1 dataset from the NaturalEarthData website. The site offers this data as both shapefiles and GeoDB. The shapefile attribute data is apparently encoded in Windows-1252 and a lot of the characters in some of the attribute data I need are just '?' characters.

The NaturalEarthData site mentions that:

The GeoDB format preserves local scripts better than SHP format.

I built GDAL against the FileGDB SDK from ArcGIS and verified the GDAL FGDB driver is working correctly using this link:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FileGDB

But I can't open files from NaturalEarthData. I always get the following error:

Unable to open datasource `ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.gdb' with the following drivers
...
FileGDB
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I don't have access to ArcGIS. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way I can access the GeoDB data?

Pris
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  • Please check following link to download data from Natural Earth Data website (https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/l7_p7.html) and go through following link for open .gdb data in qgis (http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/26285/how-to-get-gdb-esri-file-geodatabase-support-in-quantum-gis-osgeo4w-qgis) hope it will help you – Sunil Aug 27 '13 at 10:04
  • Download trial version of ArcGIS for 60 days – Sunil Aug 27 '13 at 10:05
  • QGIS uses the GDAL driver. If the driver test fails with OGR I doubt it will work with QGIS. Downloading a trial of ArcGIS is only a short term solution. – Pris Aug 27 '13 at 10:42
  • If you got really desperate, you could always consider purchasing the $100 "ArcGIS for Home" – RyanKDalton Aug 27 '13 at 14:24

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