[Freegis-list] ogr2ogr: csv to shpefile (newby question)

[Tomas Zajc]

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?

Is there any other (command line) application that can convert csv to 
shapefiles? gen2shp only convert generate files that  can't contain
attributes.
 
Thanks, Tomas

PD: I'm using gdal-1.3.1

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 19:06, Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
> 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:
> gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org
>
> (include version numbers of GDAL/OGR you are using)
>
> Cheers