[OSGeo-Discuss] Call for help: GDAL and txt2shp.py

[Kjell Are Refsvik]

On 4. juli. 2008, at 02.46, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

> ...
> You had mentioned to me earlier about GDAL/OGR from the infamous  
> Kyngchaos package, right?

Yes.

>  Do you have the command "gdalinfo" and "ogrinfo"

Yes:

refsvik$ gdalinfo
Usage: gdalinfo [--help-general] [-mm] [-stats] [-nogcp] [-nomd]
                 [-noct] [-checksum] [-mdd domain]* datasetname
refsvik$
refsvik$ ogrinfo
Usage: ogrinfo [--help-general] [-ro] [-q] [-where restricted_where]
                [-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-fid fid]
                [-sql statement] [-al] [-so] [--formats]
                datasource_name [layer [layer ...]]
refsvik$

> - they will be your best friends soon.

I am not completely sure how these two specific programs from the gdal  
package relates to the challenge of outputting a png from 2 shapefiles  
(map and legend).

> Tyler

Sincerely

Kjell Are Refsvik