[gdal-dev] Re: Multipart to singlepart

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 10-12-07 03:43 AM, iomeneandrei wrote:
>
> Hi Frank,
>
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>> Reviewing the ogr2ogr code I see this does trigger a call to
>> forceToPolygon()
>> though *mostly* it exists to set the type of the created layer.  So, yes,
>> -nlt polygon with ogr2ogr may well do what you want.
>>
> I have used this GML file as input:
> https://gist.github.com/731590
>
> It contains a multipolygon.
>
> Then I run this command: ogr2ogr -f GML -nlt POLYGON  poly_output.gml
> poly_input.gml
>
> The output file contains the same multipolygon. Is it normal?
>
> I'm using FWTools 2.4.7 for Windows.

Andrea,

I tried it with a trunk build and the multipolygon is converted to a polygon.
I suspect the feature of the forcing support is new and if you want it you
would need a reasonably recent development build - more recent than FWTools.

Best regards,
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