[gdal-dev] changing data type of a shapefile

Eli Adam EAdam at co.lincoln.or.us
Wed Jun 15 11:18:13 EDT 2011


Ahmet,

     You can also change geometry type, it is also an option with
ogr2ogr [2], -nlt.  I've only used -nlt to promote to multi-geometry.  

Eli

>>> On 6/15/2011 at 7:27 AM, in message
<BANLkTik8UghqaRv8E-pES6OSv-+e=a3QdQ at mail.gmail.com>, Chaitanya kumar
CH
<chaitanya.ch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahmet,
> 
> You can use OGR SQL [1] to typecast fields and other stuff. You can
use
> ogr2ogr [2] with the -sql option and supply the sql statement.
> 
> [1]: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc21_ogrsqlcast 
> [2]: http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html 
> 
> 2011/6/15 ahmet temiz <ahmettemiz88 at gmail.com>
> 
>> hello
>>
>> how can I change data type of a shapefile by ogr2ogr ?
>>
>> regards
>>
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