[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr: why only inserting the first file?

[Matt Wilkie]

Hello world,

I'm trying to merge a bunch of shapefiles using the syntax below. I 
could have sworn this was working for me last year, but maybe I just 
didn't look closely enough at the time.

1. Download 2 or more of these files, unpack somewhere:
http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec/50k_gml/094/a/

2. Create shapefile containers from the first GML file:
    ogr2ogr shp-out 094a01_3_0.gml

3. Append the rest:
    ogr2ogr shp-out -append 094a02_3_0.gml 094a03_3_0.gml ...

However only data from the first file are present. Why doesn't this work?

I'm using ogr utiltiies from "GDAL 1.5.3, released 2008/09/09" Osgeo4w 
(as reported by "gdalinfo --version". I couldn't figure out how to get 
ogr to report it's number).

I also tried to merge into gml, but the output file was <1kb and empty:
   ogr2ogr -f gml test-merge.gml 094a01_3_0.gml 094a02_3_0.gml



thanks in advance for your time,

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