Things like: ogr2ogr watrcrsl.shp \ gltp:/vrf/levi0/ssi/BIO/vectordata/vmap0_europe/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia \ 'watrcrsl at hydro(*)_line' produced feature-empty, but correct SHAPE files (as no features found). I tried this with all maps. But the VMAP0/Eurnasia data set requires 750 MB of disk space. So I am obviously overlooking something. Best regards Markus Neteler