[gdal-dev] problem with ogr2ogr

[Even Rouault]

Yes, this is a "feature" of ogr2ogr. See 
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2771 which is exactly the same behaviour 
your see.

The solution is to add "-nln out" at the end of your ogr2ogr commandline, as 
the name of your source dataset is "sssi" (because of sshi.shp) and the name 
of your destination layer is "out" (because of out.shp). ogr2ogr cannot find 
a layer in the destination dataset matching "sssi", then it tries to create a 
new layer called "sssi", but as "out.shp" already exists and is not a 
directory, it doesn't work... Logical, isn't it ?

Even

Le Monday 27 April 2009 17:36:51 Matthew Snape, vous avez écrit :
> Dear List,
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> I am attempting to use ogr2ogr to append a shapefile to another
> shapefile.  However, when the -update parameter is included the
> incorrect source filename appears to be used.
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> ogr2ogr -append  -update -select meta_type,meta_id,meta_name
> "C:/downloadworking/out.shp" "SSSI/sssi.shp"
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> ERROR 1: Failed to create file .shp file.
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> ERROR 4: Failed to open Shapefile `C:/downloadworking/out.shp\sssi.shp'.
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> ERROR 1: Terminating translation prematurely after failed translation of
> layer sssi (use -skipfailures to skip errors)
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> I am using latest FW Tools on XP.
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks.
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