Re: ogr2ogr: csv to shpefile (newby question)
Bart van den Eijnden <[email protected]>
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Use the virtual spatial data option for your source (this can be csv): http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html Anyway, this question would be better addressed on the gdal-dev list. Best regards, Bart Frank Koormann wrote: >Tomas, > >* Tomas Zajc <[email protected]> [051228 23:27]: > > >>I'm not getting the error message any more but I'm not geting the three files >>either. Is there any way of getting th .shx .shp an .dbf from a csv with >>ogr2ogr? >> >> > >No: http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/drv_csv.html > >"OGR supports reading and writing non-spatial tabular data stored in >text CSV files." > > > >>Is there any other (command line) application that can convert csv to >>shapefiles? gen2shp only convert generate files that can't contain >>attributes. >> >> > >But it shouldn't be that hard to cut the coordinates and the attributes >from your csv into two different tables. Apply gen2shp to generate >the geometry files and in a second step run e.g. ogr2ogr to create >the dbase attributes. > >HTH, > > Frank Koormann > > > -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS, Open Source GIS http://www.osgis.nl