[gdal-dev] problem on function "OGR_FD_GetName"

[Peter J Halls]

Randy,

    I do not use s57 data, however I have written a number of programs which use 
OGR_FD_GetName ... and it has always returned the feature name, if set, or null 
for me.  Feature, as opposed to Layer, names seem quite uncommon, however; 
although I generally set feature names when creating data objects, I have rarely 
encountered them on input from other sources.  I have never investigated whether 
this is a failure in OGR to transmit the name or whether my presumption that 
there was no name to transmit is correct.

I'm not sure how much that helps,

Peter

randyqiu wrote:
> Hi Chaitanya,
> Thanks for your quick response!
> I use this function in parse a s57 file(*.000). In this format file,I
> think the layer-name in OGR should be like this:
> berths,bridge,canals...
> which to some extend,is as same as a feature-name. But now I'm not sure
> whether I understand this concept right or not? 
> In my application,OGR_FD_GetName()returns:
> DSID
> Point
> Line
> Area
> Meta
> 
> I'd like to know whether this function works fine or not? If yes, how
> should I get a feature's name?
> Thanks a lot!
> Best regards,
> Randy
>> OGR_FD_GetName() returns the name of the feature definition set during
>> it's creation. It doesn't have to be unique and doesn't represent the
>> object type or geometry type. It is not affected by any environment
>> variables.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM, randyqiu <randyqiuxy at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>         Hi list,
>>         I reinstalled my OS (Ubuntu10.04) recently and now the
>>         OGR_FD_GetName
>>         function results in "layername" with
>>         "point,Line,Area,Meta",but I
>>         believe this function could get a layer's object name but not
>>         its
>>         geometry type.
>>         I'm not sure the problem exist in environment variable or not
>>         and, if
>>         so, what are they?
>>         Best regards
>>         Randy
>>         
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