[gdal-dev] ogrinfo Unable to identify source geometry field with GDAL 3.7 but not 3.3?

[Even Rouault]

Gary,

please provide a VRT and CSV that can reproduce this

Even

Le 11/07/2023 à 03:55, Gary Turner a écrit :
> Hi,
> Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask, but I am struggling to 
> work out what's going on.
> I'm setting up a new windows machine to process address data provided 
> by a local agency. I've downloaded new versions of software.
> I use ogr2ogr to load csv files via a vrt file into postgres. This 
> works fine with my old setup, and has worked with various older 
> versions as well.
> However with the latest ogr2ogr it fails. ogrinfo --version says GDAL 
> 3.7.0, released 2023/05/02
>
> P:\bin\gdal37>.\ogrinfo.exe C:\temp\addresses.vrt
> INFO: Open of `C:\temp\addresses.vrt'
>       using driver `OGR_VRT' successful.
> 1: addressesERROR 1: Unable to identify source geometry field 'WKT' 
> for geometry.
>  (None)
>
> but with an older version GDAL 3.3.1, released 2021/06/28
> P:\bin\gdal33>.\ogrinfo.exe C:\temp\addresses.vrt
> INFO: Open of `C:\temp\addresses.vrt'
>       using driver `OGR_VRT' successful.
> 1: addresses (Point)
>
> I get the same failure with ogr2ogr, but ogrinfo seemed simpler and 
> there's a much less complicated command-line.
> I've cut this down to a one-field, one-line of csv example that does 
> the same thing, if that's useful.
>
> Is this expected?
> Is there an easy work-around, that would work with both versions?
> Please let me know if I'm missing something obvious or just being 
> dumb, or should  ask elsewhere.
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
>
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