[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr problem converting UK Ordnance Survey MasterMap

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Wed Jun 30 10:37:59 EDT 2010


Jez,

Can you provide a mastermap file I can test with?

Best regards,

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Jez Walters <jez.walters at ipl.com> wrote:
>
> Not quite sure if I've got the right forum, but I'm having trouble using the
> 'ogr2ogr' utility (part of GDAL 1.7.2) to convert Ordnance Survey GML into
> ESRI shapefiles.
>
> The 'orientation' field is being ignored when I convert the CartographicText
> layer, although this field gets successfully translated for the
> CartographicSymbol layer.  All the other CartographicText layer fields
> appear just fine in the generated '.dbf' file.
>
> Is there a way of forcing ogr2ogr to recognise the orientation field?  Can
> anyone suggest an alternative Open Source conversion utility?  I'm fairly
> new to GIS systems, so I might be making an obvious mistake, but any advice
> is very gratefully received!  :-)
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