[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr MapINfo bug?

[Bill Thoen]

Frank,

It does appear to be a bug. When I try to create a shapefile using the same
parameters, the result appears to have no geometry associated with it. But
when I use the PostGIS dumper to create the shapefile, I get good results.

I've got samples of both results -- how do I go about filing a bug report?

If I install FWtools will it cause any issues with the Proj4 and GDAL
libraries I've already installed? Also, I'm using GEOS and Proj4 with
PostGIS, so I don't want to break anything there either.


On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 06:51:45PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Bill Thoen wrote:
> >Ogr2ogr doesn't appear to work correctly for MapInfo output. I have a
> >PostGIS table of polygons, but when I issue the following:
> >
> >ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" test.tab "PG:dbname=spatial1" -sql "select
> >the_geom, id, gridcode from adams_v1 where gridcode=72 limit 50"
> >
> >I get a MapInfo table with 50 records, but no map features. When I dump
> >this same selection as a shape file, the associated polygons come through
> >just fine. So, is this a known bug? Is there a newer version of GDAL since
> >1.3.2? Can I get a newer version of just ogr2ogr? 
> >
> >Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Bill,
> 
> I'm not sure why this would be happening.  Can you translate the shapefile 
> to
> a mapinfo file?  If not, then perhaps you could file a bug with the 
> shapefile
> attached as the example?
> 
> BTW, getting a new ogr2ogr executable would likely not help as I presume any
> meaningful changes would be in the GDAL dll/shared library, not the mainline
> executable.  You might want to try using the FWTools ogr2ogr to see if it
> helps - it is built from the very latest CVS source code.
> 
> Best regards,
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