[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr: Problem with new layer type multilinestring

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 5/18/05, Möri Cédric <Cedric.Moeri at bd.so.ch> wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> I have a shapefile containing linestrings (polyline) and multilinestrings
> (multi-polyline) that I'm trying to put into a PostGIS-DB using ogr2ogr.
> 
> The problem is, that it always violates the check constraint geometry type.
> If I try it without the -nlt option, the geometry column is "linestring"
> and, of course, the multilinestring-objects violate the constraint. If I put
> the -nlt option to "multilinestring" the linestring objects violate the
> constraint too.
> 
> I thought, that, if the -nlt option is set to mulitlinestring, it forces a
> conversion of linestring objects to multilinestrings as it does it with
> polygons/multipolygons.

Möri,

I kind of thought it would do that too, but perhaps not. 
 
> Am I wrong or whatelse may be the issue?
> 
> I am using ogr2ogr version 1.2.5.

I would suggest using "-nlt geometry" which should result in 
no geometry type constraint.  At least that is the intention. 

Best regards,
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