[gdal-dev] OGR Select Features by Location...

[Brian Hamlin]

thats a good application of PostGIS
I think people can do it with GEOS directly, but I have not written 
that myself

  -Brian


On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:40 AM, estrada.adam at gmail.com wrote:

> All,
>     I have quite a bit of LIDAR data that has been converted to point
> shapefiles.  I need to select all the points that intersect with
> another polygon shapefile and then write those features to another
> layer (shapefile).  ArcGIS will definitely do it but I am afraid that
> my machine is not beefy enough to handle LIDAR-sized datasets so I was
> wondering if anyone knew of some functionality in OGR lib that would
> do this for me?  I cannot seem to figure out how to select by location
> with the set of tools that are available i.e ogr2ogr...
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> AWE
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