[gdal-dev] gdal_rasterize use SHP FID as burn attribute

[Frank Warmerdam]

Peter Rankor wrote:
> List,
> 
> I need to rasterize a polygon layer coming from a SHP file. However, the 
> values in the outputraster need to be the FID of the corresponding polygon.
> 
> My command:
> gdal_rasterize -a FID -l FECS FECS.shp flattenedRaster.tif

Peter,

Could you try:

gdal_rasterize -a FID \
     -sql "select FID, * from FECS" FEC.shp flattenedRaster.tif

The ExecuteSQL() method invoked for -sql should be able to treat FID
as a pseudo-attribute.  It's a bit unfortunate this sort of thing doesn't
work directly without the SQL route.

Best regards,
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