[Gdal-dev] Release 1.4.0

[Yves Jacolin]

Le Mardi 14 Novembre 2006 16:55, Frank Warmerdam a écrit :
> Yves Jacolin wrote:
> > Le Lundi 13 Novembre 2006 21:20, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> Following up on Ari's suggestion, I'd like to plan on a new GDAL
> >> release by mid December, perhaps with a first official beta December
> >> 1st.
> >> [...]
> >
> > Just a question/suggestion, is it possible to allow ogr to clip a region
> > from a box or from another vector file like gdal-translate does for
> > raster ? May be it already exists ?!
>
> Yves,
>
> The ogr2ogr program includes a -spat flag that allows you to select a
> particular rectangular region of a vector layer.  However, it doesn't
> actually clip the returned geometries to the rectangle.  It just selects
> all features whose geometries MBR touches the indicated box.
>
> It is possible to do clipping from Python using GEOS through OGR.  You
> would need to use the Intersection() method to clip geometries to your
> box area of interest.
>
> Best regards,
Thank you for your answer. I will study it.

Y.
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