[Qgis-community-team] add a gml layer

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Tara,
On Fri, 20. Jun 2008 at 09:11:06 -0700, Tara Athan wrote:
> I am attempting to add a gml layer to the QGIS dataset that will be used 
> in the next release of the QGIS manual (v 1.0).

> I took the lakes.shp shapefile from the existing dataset and used ArcMap 
> to convert to gml (sorry, I couldn't figure out any other way.)

You can do that using OGR

ogr2ogr -f GML lakes.gml lakes.shp

creates a GML file you can use with QGIS.


Jürgen

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