[gdal-dev] convert s57 to shp via ogr2ogr?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Sat Apr 17 22:18:49 EDT 2010


Randy wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> Thanks for your response!
>> The first message indicates that there are some fields of
>> a type that cannot be translated to shapefiles directly.  With
>> -skipfailures they should be just skipped.
>>
>> The second message is caused when an S-57 layer has a mixture
>> of geometry types.  Shapefiles can only have one geometry
>> type (ie. line or point) per layer.   The traditional way to
>> address this is to do two translations for layers with a mixture
>> of geometries, one for each geometry type.
>>
>> So you command is reasonable, but to translate S-57 the best
>> that is possible you will likely need to do the translation
>> one layer at a time,
> The ogr2ogr has "[-clipsrclayer layer]" which seems could do translation
> one layer at a time,but this means I should get the layername via
> "ogrinfo" first,right?


Randy,

That switch is not appropriate to just transform a single layer.
Do something like:

ogr2ogr -skipfailures wrecks_p.shp -nlt point GB4X0000.000 wrecks
ogr2ogr -skipfailures wrecks_l.shp -nlt linestring GB4X0000.000 wrecks

Best regards,
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