[Talk-us-massachusetts] MassGIS Parcels, importing into postgis?

[Greg Troxel]

Hobbit via Talk-us-massachusetts
<talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> Meta-comment 1:
> While little of that is recognizable to me, are facilities still using .GDB
> files?  Like what old GPS units stored track data in?  Those were a much more
> space-efficient binary means than, say .gpx, and even more so when compressed.
> These days when I archive a collection of .gpx tracks from my hikes and
> trips, I usually gpsbabel convert them to old-skool type 1 .gdb *and* gzip
> them, and they take a fraction of the original size.

Different gdb - this is "file geodatabase", an ESRI proprietary format,
for which there are also open-source drivers in GDAL.   I am 99.9% sure
it has nothing to with Garmin.

> Meta-comment 2:
> The last three list messages showed up classified as spam by ionos/1and1 where
> techno-fandom goes.  No idea why.  So it's ironic that Ionos' own outbound
> *relays* also got blacklisted at Spamhaus. causing *my* mail to get either
> misclassified or bounced.

Spam filtering is definitely hard.  But only ionos/1and1 can look at
debug logs and explain incoming classification.

Your message seems to lack DKIM, which these dauys sorts it into not
meeting expectations.