[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr: double -> integer conversion problem

[Frank Warmerdam]

mirza wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> My decision some time ago was to pretend that these are doubles rather 
>> than
>> deal with adding some sort of 64bit integer type to shapelib.
>>
> 
> Frank,
> 
> I think it should be converted to int64 because many big data providers 
> (like TeleAtlas) uses this for element ID and if you handle it as double 
> you get something like 1.22434E15, which is not nice ID at all. Of 
> course, it is possible to tweak how double is formated but it is more 
> complex then simply converting it to int64.
> 
> I created shp2mif utility today to deal with this (if anyone needs it I 
> can send it, it is only row converter, no coord. sys. transfers).

Mirza,

Well, I agree that OGR *ought* to support 64 bit integer values as field
attributes.  What is less clear is when or how that will occur.

Best regards,
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