[gdal-dev] VPF parsing

[Malm Paul]

Frank, 
How do I get past the inabilito of (MS Windows) to create file names including '*'? 

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
Sent: den 21 januari 2009 18:16
To: Malm Paul
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] VPF parsing

Malm Paul wrote:
> 
> Hi list, Is it possible to convert all "layers" in a VPF database to 
> shapefiles without knowing about the layers included, in Windows with 
> ogr2ogr?

Paul,

In theory that is what ogr2ogr should do by default but it will produce shapefiles with awful names due to the messy names of the layers in VPF as exposed through OGDI.


eg.

ogr2ogr shape_out_dir gltp:/vrf/usr3/mpp1/v0noa/vmaplv0/noamer

Best regards,

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