[OSGeo-Discuss] methods for programatically adding fields to shapefiles

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Frank



2008/10/31 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Are there any suggestions on how to do this from c++? Something we've
>> long wanted to add support for in QGIS.....
>>
>> Frank Warmerdam was reticent about adding it to ogr since it would
>> have many crosscutting implications...
>
> Tim,
>
> I would note that I would not mind implementing OGRLayer::CreateField()
> for shapefiles that already have features (though I'm not promising
> I have time).  I think I was wanting to avoid more general schema
> alteration (removing fields, reordering, changing names, etc).

That would be great if you have time - no rush though since we are in
feature freeze and we would have to wait for your changes to get into
a gdal release and then into distros etc..


Regards

Tim

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