[gdal-dev] tab delimited to shapefile

[Jason Roberts]

Hi Bruce,

 

A while ago I wrote a little utility to convert delimited text files to
shapefiles, based on an old version of shapelib. (This is before I knew
about the OGR project.) You can download a copy from ESRI's ArcScripts site
at http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=14268. It does work on
tab-delimited data, although I don't know whether it will work on the
geonames.org files.

 

Best,

Jason

 

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[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Clay, Bruce
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:10 AM
To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [gdal-dev] tab delimited to shapefile

 

Is there any way to use ogr2ogr to convert tab-delimited data such as the
geoname dot org files into shapefiles short of converting all tabs to
commas?

 

I created a VRT file that works with CSV files but I can not find any way to
convert tab-delimited data.

 

Bruce

 

 
 
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