[postgis-users] Using OGR2OGR to export postgis data to other mapinfo

[Obe, Regina DND\MIS]

Frank,

Thanks that worked and dumps out the tab file now. Now I feel kind of stupid
for such a simple solution.

There is one other problem, which I haven't figured out why it is happening.
For certain tables with spatial fields, it doesn't generate anything.  I
thought maybe it had to do with the geometry_columns table not having a
record for a particular table - but doesn't work for some of those either.
I'm still trouble-shooting that.

It also doesn't seem to work for views - even if I put in an entry in
geometry_columns, although this could be related to problem above.

Now my final question -- If I have two spatial fields in a table -- is there
anyway to denote which spatial field to dump out or would I need to
explicitly specify it in the 
-select option field list?



-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:04 AM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Using OGR2OGR to export postgis data to
other mapinfo


Obe, Regina DND\MIS wrote:
> Is it possible to use OGR2OGR to export postgis spatial data to mapinfo
> format.
> 
> I tried (I think the latest build of OGR2OGR) and when I do -- 
> 
> 1) It exports the whole database - can't figure out how to specify just
one
> table
> 2) It doesn't create the .tab file just the dat files, id and .map files
for
> each pg table (although I did exit out before it reached completion for
the
> whole database).
> 
> The syntax I was using is 
> 
> ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File"  test PG:dbname=dnddts
> 
> 
> As a work around - I've been using pgsql2shp to dump to shape and then
using
> OGR2OGR to dump the shape to mapinfo format.  It would be nice to skip
that
> additional step.

Regina,

You can list the layers (tables) you want to translate on the ogr2ogr 
commandline.  If you don't list any it assumes all layers should be
translated.   I presume some files were missing because you terminated
the program before completion.

eg.

ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" test PG:dbname=dnddts myfeattable

Best regards,

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