[Gdal-dev] Converting style info to attributes

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
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> Using OGR, I want to take a DGN file and convert it to another format
> (shape or postgis).  I want to take the styling information from DGN and
> store it as attributes in the output format.  Are these exposed anywhere
> that I can get at with Python?  I see that Mapserver gets access to them,
> but I assumes it through the c api.  I also assume I can't do this with the
> ogr2ogr utility. Any thoughts?

Tyler,

I haven't tested it, but I see there is a GetStyleString() and SetStyleString()
method on the ogr.Feature() in Python.  So you can use the GetStyleString()
to fetch the style, but you will need to put it in a regular attribute yourself
if you are writing to PostGIS or Shapefile.  Also, I don't think there is any
mechanism to tell MapServer to use a regular attribute as the source of
the style string, though I can see that this would be very useful.

Best regards,
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