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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Even<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks for your reply, I will try the option. I just wonder, if the driver performs automatical laundering, shouldn’t
 it automatically transform any requests too? So when asked if a layer exists, launder the incoming name and compare to that or does it have other complications down the road?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards, Casper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Even Rouault [mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 5. oktober 2017 13:15<br>
<b>To:</b> Casper Børgesen <caboe@sdfe.dk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Problem with merging SHAPEs into SpatiaLite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">On jeudi 5 octobre 2017 10:52:42 CEST Casper Børgesen wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Hi Even<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> I have prepared a very small test data set:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> 2 shape files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> 1 BAT file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> 1 screenshot of my output<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> You can find it here:
<a href="https://ufile.io/ravt2">https://ufile.io/ravt2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> I don't have access to a Linux machine at the moment, so I cannot test it on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Linux. But I am curious to know if it works on Linux :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Oh I wrongly assumed you used geopackage whereas you use sqlite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The difference is that the sqlite driver applies by default name laundering which will turn "a-b" into a_b in the creation
 stage. So your append -nln "a-b" will match a non existing layer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Add -lco LAUNDER=NO to the creation stage and that will solve it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Regards, Casper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> From: Even Rouault [<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com">mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Sent: 5. oktober 2017 12:34<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> To:
<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Cc: Casper Børgesen <<a href="mailto:caboe@sdfe.dk">caboe@sdfe.dk</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Problem with merging SHAPEs into SpatiaLite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> On mercredi 4 octobre 2017 08:58:25 CEST Casper Børgesen wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > Hi Jukka<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > I tried only to discover that the error is probably about an invalid (?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > layer name (-nln). ogr2ogr doesn't complain if I give it a layer name with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > a dash in the middle, like 'some-thing'. When appending data to the layer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > using the same layer name, I get the error message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > I don't know if this type of layer names are indeed invalid and if so, the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> >
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> > current behaviour of ogr2ogr not complaining is intended.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> I cannot reproduce on Linux (and can't see why that would be Windows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> specific)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> The following works fine for me:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> ogr2ogr -f gpkg test.gpkg ../autotest/ogr/data/poly.shp -nln "a-b"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> ogr2ogr -gt 100000 -update -append test.gpkg ../autotest/ogr/data/poly.shp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">> -nln "a-b"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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