[Gdal-dev] CSV of Linestring

Jørn Vegard Røsnes jorn at spacetec.no
Thu Nov 3 09:44:02 EST 2005


Thanks, it seems to work.

On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:24, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 11/3/05, Jørn Vegard Røsnes <jorn at spacetec.no> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have no luck converting a CSV file of Linestrings to a shapefile.
> > Could someone give me some clues?
> >
> > This is the CSV:
> >
> > coor
> > LINESTRING (-233950.35 6518319.86,-213912.58 6338485.11)
> > LINESTRING (-222837.63 6329611.25,-222677.18 6329330.43)
> > LINESTRING (-222611.28 6329508.51,-222507.84 6329300.95)
>
> Jørn,
>
> As it turns out, the OGR CSV driver does not consider the file
> to be a .csv file if it does not have at least two fields.  Try
> adding an "ID" field or something.
>
> Best regards,
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