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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am trying to rasterize a set of points from
a CSV file with coordinates. I have created a VRT file to define a
virtual 2D layer. I am using version1.7 so I need to copy a template
output image file to rasterize (output.tif). The field “abl_val”
contains the data I want to rasterize and “f_year” and “f_period”
are filter attributes. I use the following syntax in my rasterize command.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>gdal_rasterize <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'> -a abl_val
-l alberta_out -where 'f_year = 2010 and f_period = 16 and abl_val is not null'
Alberta_Out.vrt output.tif<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I simply get the standard usage message below
indicating that my syntax is wrong. Yet, I cannot see it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>Usage:
gdal_rasterize [-b band] [-i]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>
[-burn value] | [-a attribute_name] | [-3d]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>
[-l layername]* [-where expression] [-sql select_statement]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>
<src_datasource> <dst_filename><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Any ideas? If so, please respond to
this email address. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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