[gdal-dev] Missing geometry type when using ogr2ogr to write FileGDB

[Even Rouault]

Le dimanche 21 avril 2013 22:39:09, Stefan Keller a écrit :
> 2013/4/21 Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>
> 
> > There's nothing wrong in the GetFeature output. It is completely
> 
> legitimate
> 
> > and usual to have a gml:Box inside a gml:boundedBy.
> > The DescribeFeatureType is also valid, but it could be made more specific
> 
> by
> 
> > reporting type="gml:SurfacePropertyType" instead of
> > type="gml:GeometryPropertyType"
> 
> I see.
> 
> To me GetCapabilities of http://http://maps.zh.ch/wfs/FnsNSWFS should also
> be more specific. Currently there's no geometry hint (and it even issues
> warnings about missing EXTENT).
> 
> So,given it's DescribeFeatureType would report
> type="gml:SurfacePropertyType" would the WFS reader of GDAL work?

Yes (well, to be pedantic, it does already work currently)

> 
> I thought, most WFS clients/converters read GetCapabilities, not
> DescribeFeatureType.

The output of GetCapabilities cannot be used to guess the layer geometry type, 
since there's no element to indicate it. You have to read the output of 
DescribeFeatureType for that (or fallback to the features themselves).