[gdal-dev] nonspatial column with ogr.

[ahmet temiz]

thank you

I think I need one more clarification. Doesn't "field" have same
meaning with column ?
or what does "field" correspond to in sql jargon ?

I will appreciate if you make me clear


2010/8/24 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> ahmet temiz wrote:
>>
>> hello
>>
>> I can create spatial column. But I don't know how I can create
>> nonspatial column with ogr in gdal-java.
>>
>> something like column "name" and its value "xxxx"
>>
>
> Ahmet,
>
> I believe you are looking for the CreateField() method on the OGR Layer
> class.  Note that it does not provide a mechanism to populate the new
> column with a particular value for pre-existing features.
>
>
> http://www.gdal.org/java/org/gdal/ogr/Layer.html#CreateField%28org.gdal.ogr.FieldDefn,%20int%29
>
>
> Best regards,
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