[Gdal-dev] Basic Pg Question

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/27/07, Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> If I have a database with a table, and that table has fields Latitude
> and Longitude, in double precision. What are some ways I can enable OGR
> to see that as a Point?  I am asking for all the steps.. I assume there
> are many ways to begin

Brian,

Matthew Perry's mechanism is in fact the best and most
direct approach.  But I can't help mentioning that the OGR
VRT driver can be used to massage seemingly non-spatial
feature sources with geometry info in x/y columns into an
OGR spatial data source:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html

Best regards,
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