Re: ogr2ogr: csv to shpefile (newby question)
Mateusz Łoskot <[email protected]>
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Tomas Zajc wrote: > I could finally install gdal and ogr on slackware. I'm now trying to convert > some csv to shapefiles. For that I'm using the following comand: > > ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" out coal.csv > > where coal csv is: > > unknown,na,id,id2,mark,coalkey,coalkey2,x,y > 0.000,0.000,1,1,7,87,87,76.90238,51.07161 > 0.000,0.000,2,2,7,110,110,78.53851,50.69403 > 0.000,0.000,3,3,3,112,112,83.22586,71.24420 > > I'm getting the following error: > > ERROR 4: Unable to open out/coal.shp or out/coal.SHP I've just checked on Windows and this command should work. I use ogr2ogr from FWTools package (http://fwtools.maptools.org) as follows: ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" out.shp coal.csv As a result I got *one* DBF file out.dbf with data from coal.csv. > and an out directory with a coal.dbf file. I need to generate the three files. You won't get 3 files, only 1 .dbf. > Any suggestion? I'd suggest you to report the problem on GDAL/OGR list: [email protected] (include version numbers of GDAL/OGR you are using) Cheers -- Mateusz Łoskot http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Freegis-list mailing list [email protected] https://intevation.de/mailman/listinfo/freegis-list