[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr, TAB->SHP, MULTILINESTRINGs

[Frank Warmerdam]

Krzysztof Chodak wrote:
> What are the objections of converting MULTILINESTRING (from MI TAB) into
> (ESRI) shapes?
> 
> As sections from MULTILINESTRING can be independent/discontinuous it would
> require creating one shape for each section. As ogr2ogr doesn't support such
> conversion and MI Professional Universal Translator is doing it badly (it
> makes one continuous line from all of segments which sometimes is correct
> but sometimes produces rubbish) I have no tool and I'm in a dead point now.
> 
> It would be great if someone would suggest me the solution (or/and answer to
> first question in this post).

Krzysztof,

Could you supply an example of these MapInfo multilinestrings?  When you say
they aren't supported by OGR for translation to shape, do you mean OGR doesn't
read them at all or that they aren't properly translated?

Best regards,

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