[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr MapInfo Tab + Styling

[Dale Harris]

What ogr2ogr command are you using?

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Dale Harris
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Greener [mailto:simon at spatialdbadvisor.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 30 September 2009 11:16 AM
To: Dale Harris; gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] ogr2ogr MapInfo Tab + Styling

Dale,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

> Try this symbol definition. I vaguely remember having this issue and I used this symbol to fix it.
>
> 'SYMBOL(a:0,c:#ff0000,s:6pt,id:"mapinfo-sym-34.ogr-sym-4")'
>
> so
>
> create or replace view vw_australian_cities
> as
> select rownum as rid,
>         a.abbr as abbreviation,
>         a.city_name,
>         a.geom.Get_WKB() as geom,
>         CAST('SYMBOL(a:0,c:#ff0000,s:6pt,id:"mapinfo-sym-34.ogr-sym-4")' as varchar2(255)) as OGR_STYLE
>    from australian_cities a;

I tried this but it didn't work. I also tried putting a comma ',' instead of a full stop '.'  between the mapinfo-sym34 and ogr-sym-4 but that didn't work either.

If you can remember more clearly what you did to get it work I would appreciate it.

regards
SImon
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