How to Open Personal Geodatabase in QGIS

ArcGIS and QGIS are two giants of GIS Software in the modern era. Both of them are used by most of GIS experts around the world. They come with similar features but still there are some distinction about their capabilities. Take the Geospatial data format as the reference, ArcGIS has its own native geospatial data format called file geodatabase. File geodatabase is such a complete format that it is not only capable to store vector data, but it also can store raster data, topology, relationship table, geoprocessing tools, domain reference, custom coordinate system, you name it. 

And now about QGIS, it is still a young player in GIS although it is been developed by Open Source Communities for more than 20 years. QGIS born as lightweight GIS software with very limited capabilities, but few years later, it is growth into a giant with a wide range capabilities to tackle complex GIS processing ranging from spatial analysis, database management, to raster simulation. Even there are some features in QGIS that you cant find in ArcGIS or may be there it is, but it is not as intuitive as QGIS can offer.

Anyway like a wise person said, two powers are better than one, so lets not arguing about which is the better between them. Use them together are better in my opinion, Complementing each others, covering the weakness of one with strength of the other. This is very true because nowadays ArcGIS and QGIS data format are interoperable each other. Today you can read the ArcGIS Geodatabases inside QGIS, and if you are not know how, here it is.......


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