[gdal-dev] Core dump: old gdal, bug in gdal, bug in data?

[Russell McOrmond]

Even Rouault wrote:
> Selon Russell McOrmond <russell at flora.ca>:
> 
> I tried ogr2ogr -f KML with the 2008 data and it works for me.

Thank you!

> fixed since then in GDAL, but I'm not sure if they patched their packages with
> the fix (from a quick review, no they didn't).

  I've since found these related bugs.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdal/+bug/271670  I'm not sure
who is in charge of the Ubuntu binaries, but it seems that Gdal 1.6.2-1
is currently in debian unstable.

  I'll take a look at compiling the latest gdal for this desktop and see
how that works.

> Anyway, if you want to use those shapefiles in mapserver, you don't care about
> OGR as mapserver directly reads shapefiles by itself.

  My hope was to import the shapefiles into PostGIS.  I only referenced
the KML file as a standalone file which I can verify with Google Earth
whether it converted correctly or not.   I don't have a lot of GIS tools
on my desktop at the moment.

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