[Gdal-dev] ogrinfo and oracle spatial

[Howard Butler]

The latest MS4W is built with support for Oracle OGR support.  You 
need to have the 10g client libraries installed on your path 
somewhere, and use the OGR_DRIVER_PATH/GDAL_DRIVER_PATH environment 
variables to activate it.  See the readme file in MS4W for more 
information.

In addition, the latest MS4W comes with Oracle MapServer support as 
well.  See the readme file for more information on that as well. 
Using it involves a some dll swapping, but it isn't too bad.

Howard

At 12:51 PM +0200 6/9/06, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>Daniel Goetz wrote:
>>  Thank you Mateusz for your help.
>>
>>  Unfortunatelly the command: "ogrinfo OCI:gds_brwk2004_umn/umn at gds1prod"
>>  brought back the following (this tiem I used the ogrinfo
>>  integrated in ms4w:
>>
>>  FAILURE:
>>  Unable to open datasource 'OCI:gds_brwk2004_umn/umn at gds1prod' with 
>>the following drivers.
>>
>>  -> ESRI Shapefile
>>  ->MapInfo File
>>  ->UK .NTF
>>  ->SDTS
>>  ->TIGER
>>  ->S57
>>  ->DGN
>>  ->VRT
>>  ->AVCBin
>>  ->REC
>>  ->Memory
>>  ->CSV
>>  ->GML
>>  ->ODBC
>>  ->PGeo
>>  ->PostgreSQL
>>  ->MySQL
>
>
>As you can see, list of supported drivers of your OGR does not include
>OCI for Oracle Spatial.
>This is the problem.
>
>
>>  Subsequent I watched out fo the supported formats by commanding:
>>  "ogrinfo --formats"
>>
>>  the result was:
>>
>>  Loaded OGR Format Drivers:
>>  ->"ESRI Shapefiel"
>>  ->"MapInfo File"
>>  ->"UK .NTF"
>>  ->"SDTS"
>>  ->"S57"
>>  ->"DGN"
>>  ->"VRT"
>>  ->"AVCBin"
>>  ->"REC"
>>  ->"Memory"
>>  ->"CSV"
>>  ->"GML"
>>  ->"ODBC"
>>  ->"PGeo"
>>  ->"PostgreSQL"
>>  ->"MySQL"
>
>
>Yes, this is the same list as above you got with the error message.
>
>
>>  Can you please tell me whether the needed driver for oracle
>>  spatial is supported in my OGR. Can you tell me what I further
>>  sould do.
>
>
>AFAIK,
>you have to build GDAL yourself with OCI driver included in the OGR.
>I'm writing 'AFAIK', because I don't know if there is any FWTools or
>MS4W or any other package that provides OGR built with OCI support.
>
>I assume you're using Windows, you can turn on OCI support by
>editing nmake.opt file.
>Find OCI word and you will see appropriate options/paths to enable this
>driver (look for "Add ORACLE support" section).
>
>On Unix, you can use --with-oci option for ./configure script.
>
>BTW, I've never used OCI myself, so I'm giving you some suggestions I
>base on  my knowledge, but not experience.
>
>Cheers
>--
>Mateusz Loskot
>http://mateusz.loskot.net
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