Re: ogr2ogr: csv to shpefile (newby question)

Daniel Calvelo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.freegis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 12/29/05, Frank Koormann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.

Or do it all in GRASS using v.in.ascii then v.out.ogr. Bonus:
reproject as needed.

Doesn't QGIS provide an X-Y importer? The "Delimited Text Importer"
plugin, if memory serves right. Beware of nulls though.

HTH, Daniel

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