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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi devs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am trying to merge a bunch of SHAPE files into a few SpatiaLite files. To make it more simple I have two kinds of data sets A and B and each data set has two SHAPE files. So my result should end up being a SpatiaLite
file for each data set.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am using the following commands to create the SpatiaLite files:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">If it’s the first file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ogr2ogr -f SQLite -dsco SPATIALITE=YES -gt 100000 -lco SPATIAL_INDEX=NO out_A.spatialite A_1.shp -nln A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Else:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ogr2ogr -gt 100000 -update -append A.spatialite A_2.shp -nln A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">If it’s the first file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ogr2ogr -f SQLite -dsco SPATIALITE=YES -gt 100000 -lco SPATIAL_INDEX=NO out_B.spatialite B_1.shp -nln B<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Else:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ogr2ogr -gt 100000 -update -append B.spatialite B_2.shp -nln B<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For some reason I haven’t found yet, the last command fails with the following message (both A’s work just fine):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ERROR 1: Layer B already exists, CreateLayer failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Use the layer creation option OVERWRITE=YES to replace it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ERROR 1: Terminating translation prematurely after failed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">translation of layer B (use -skipfailures to skip errors)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The two data sets are both linestrings but has different attributes. Both 1 and 2 in each data set has been created programmatically the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am using GDAL 2.2.2 (x64) on Windows 7 from OSGeo4W.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What could be the reason for this error?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Regards, Casper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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