[Gdal-dev] bbox of vmap

[Frank Warmerdam]

Martel, Christian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the easiest method to extract the bounding box of a vmap CD
> (with python script with fwtool on windows) ? 
> With raster data and GDAL I use GetGeoTransform but there is nothing
> similar in OGR.
> Any hint would be appreciate.

Christian,

You can call the ogr.Layer.GetExtent() method to fetch the extents of a
layer from python.

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