[gdal-dev] converting lines to linestrings

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11-08-27 02:10 AM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not sure if this is the correct list to address this on, but ....
>
> I have lots of files, each with a bunch of lines that start & stop on each
> others ends and I need to convert them into line strings, file by file.
>
> Is there a command-line (batch) way I can do this?
>
> They are currently in DGN (v8) format but I can convert them to SHP, MID/MIF or
> whatever.
>
> What I'm looking to do is to create a batch pipeline that, file by file, will
> take each line, and if either of its ends are within 0.5m of another line-end,
> then join them together to form one line string, then output that "snapped up"
> data to disk. (any format)

Zoltan,

I do not believe you can accomplish this with ogr2ogr.  But it is certainly
possible to write a script, for instance in python, that would accomplish
this in combination with the OGR API.  That is the approach I would take.

Best regards,
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