[gdal-dev] Split apart MULTI* problem

[William Kyngesburye]

On Apr 26, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Even Rouault wrote:

> Le mardi 26 avril 2011 15:27:05, William Kyngesburye a écrit :
>> I just remembered that what I've done in the past wasn't splitting multi
>> features, but dropping the z from 3D shapefiles.  So I don't know if the
>> multi splitting is possible.
>> 
>> And yes, forcing features to multi into PostGIS is different from splitting
>> multi features into a shapefile.
>> 
>> I suppose I'll have to write a python script...
> 
> Or use the -explodecollections flag of ogr2ogr ?

Oh.  I missed that, it's not described in the long help.  That works.

thanks

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