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

[Bart van den Eijnden]

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 <tzajc at conae.gov.ar> [051228 23:27]:
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>>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?
>>    
>>
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>No: http://gdal.maptools.org/ogr/drv_csv.html
>
>"OGR supports reading and writing non-spatial tabular data stored in
>text CSV files."
>
>  
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>>Is there any other (command line) application that can convert csv to 
>>shapefiles? gen2shp only convert generate files that  can't contain
>>attributes.
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>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
> 
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>


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