[gdal-dev] combine shapefiles?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Wendell Turner wrote:
> Is there a utility that will combine multiple shapefiles
> into one shapefile?  I tried ogr2ogr with several
> combinations of arguments (overwrite, append, update) but it
> didn't work.  Is there another utility that will will
> combine them?
> 
> (mapserver queries don't seem to work right on layers with
> multiple shapefiles using a tileindex)


Wendell,

I was successful doing this to copy a file to another file and then
append another copy of the same features onto the second file.

   ogr2ogr out.shp in.shp
   ogr2ogr -update -append out.shp in.shp in -nln out

Best regards,
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