[gdal-dev] OGR shapefile to MapInfo

[Frank Warmerdam]

Nicolas,

Despite the hint provided in the error message, field type
9 is actually OFTDate.  So the problem is that your shapefile
has a date field, but the mapinfo code does not know how to
create this field type.

I am under the impression this has actually been fixed
very recently.  So if you are using a version other than
GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 (beta or RC) then consider upgrading.

If that still does not help, consider using the facilities
provided by RFC 21 to use SQL to cast the field to
a string (also only in GDAL 1.6 I believe).

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc21_ogrsqlcast

Best regards,

On 12/4/08, nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au
<nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au> wrote:
>
> GDAL list,
>
> I have a shapefile "C:\DATA\asris_shp\QLD_COMBINEDSOILS_lyr.shp"
> that I want to convert into a mapinfo file
> "C:\DATA\asris_mi\QLD_COMBINEDSOILS_lyr.TAB"
>
> The command I used was;
>
> ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" C:\DATA\asris_mi\QLD_COMBINEDSOILS_lyr.TAB
> C:\DATA\asris_shp\QLD_COMBINEDSOILS_lyr.shp
>
> The resulting error is;
>
> ERROR 1: IMapInfoFile::CreateField() called with unsupported field type 9.
> Note that MapInfo files don't support list field types.
>
> I don't know what has gone wrong.
>
> All the fields in the shapefile are text and numeric (double)
>
> Regards,
> nick
>
>
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