[Gdal-dev] CSV of Linestring

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11/3/05, Jørn Vegard Røsnes <jorn at spacetec.no> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have no luck converting a CSV file of Linestrings to a shapefile.
> Could someone give me some clues?
>
> This is the CSV:
>
> coor
> LINESTRING (-233950.35 6518319.86,-213912.58 6338485.11)
> LINESTRING (-222837.63 6329611.25,-222677.18 6329330.43)
> LINESTRING (-222611.28 6329508.51,-222507.84 6329300.95)

Jørn,

As it turns out, the OGR CSV driver does not consider the file
to be a .csv file if it does not have at least two fields.  Try
adding an "ID" field or something.

Best regards,
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