FW: Re: [Gdal-dev] Save a map from a OGRDataSource

Josepo Urrutia find_all at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 4 08:15:04 EDT 2005


>
>So you have data in an OGRDataSource from some format (not necessarily
>S-57) and you want to save it out to S-57 format?  That is a very messy
>and unsafe thing to do because OGR's S-57 writing support is very
>dependent on having the exact S-57 data model already preprepared.
>
>If you want to see how to use OGR to write data out to a format OGR
>supports for creation, look through ogr2ogr.cpp, or better yet read through
>the "Write to OGR" part of the API tutorial at:
>
>   http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html
>

Writing the map on S-57 format is not mandatory, using any format OGR 
library can read would be OK.

I'll take a look to the code and the tutorial, thanks for the hint!
If I've any question I know where to ask  ;-)





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