[gdal-dev] Regarding using OCI

Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 07:15:48 EDT 2009


Srikanth,

The ogr2ogr utility might be of help to you.
Docs: http://gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html
Download: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Srikanth <srikanth1947 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter ,
>
> To be more specific, I want to store a ESRI shape file into the oracle
> database. I would like to know whether gdal provides such a kind of
> direct method where in if one passes the shape file name it gets
> stored in the database handling the conversion of SDO_GEOM type
> internally.
>
> I have gone through the example provided by Mr.Frank ( fastload.cpp
> and ocitest.cpp ) but he I do not want handle the oci calls by myself.
>
> Is there any possibilty to meet my requirement.
>
> Regards,
> Srikanth
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Peter Halls<P.Halls at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Srikanth,
> >
> >  with the driver documentation, Frank has provided a simple overview
> > example. Otherwise, the OCI driver works just like any other. Look
> carefully
> > at Frank's syntax for the connection string, though.
> >
> >  I've been using this driver for a couple of years now with very good
> > results - indeed, this seems more convenient than using the ArcSDE driver
> > interface and is a good test that the SDE environment is properly set up
> to
> > share data through Oracle.
> >
> >  I'm not in my office at the moment, however when I'm back I could dig
> out
> > some examples of how my code uses the OCI driver, if that would be any
> help
> > to you.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On Jul 17 2009, Srikanth wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I want to connect to Oracle and save/retrieve the vector/raster files
> >> using OCI. I have identified the classes ( ogrocidriver,
> ogrocistatement,
> >> ogrocitablelayer, etc) in GDAL to achieve this.But I did not find any
> >> documentation or examples to guide. I would be thankful if anyone can
> >> provide me suitable examples or guide me in locating suitable
> documenation.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth K.
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Best regards,
-- 
Chaitanya kumar CH.
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