[Gdal-dev] hi, does GDAL supports shapefile?

[Jeshua Lacock]

On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Jason wrote:

> Hi, I am a fresh man in using GDAL. I read the document of GDAL, found
> that shapefile (.shp) seems doesn't supported by GDAL. And I also try
> used GDALOpen () to open a shapefile file, but got errors. Does GDAL
> (gdal v1.22 )supports read/write of shapefile?

The OGR branch of GDAL handles all of the vector formats, and .shp is 
supported. This example command will convert the specified .shp file to 
OGR format:

     ogr2ogr -f GML  contours.gml contours/contour.shp


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