[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr - output WKT to console?

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 31 août 2011 22:44:55, Elijah Robison a écrit :
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>> When troubleshooting geodata integrity issues, we sometimes use ogr2ogr
>> to push WKT expressions to a .csv file using a script like I show below.
>> It uses an ogr sql statement to grab a single feature from a raw
>> shapefile data source, then it saves the output to a CSV:
>>
>> ogr2ogr -f "CSV" "C:\xData\CountyData\Shps\OriginalParcelCSV"
>> "C:\xData\CountyData\Shps\parcel_polygons.shp" -sql "select * from
>> parcel_polygons where id= 9080" -lco "GEOMETRY=AS_WKT" -lco
>> "LINEFORMAT=CRLF" -lco "SEPARATOR=SEMICOLON"
>>
>> As our needs in this situation are very transient, I'm curious if it is
>> possible to output the WKT directly to the console?
>
> Yes, as a output filename, you can use the special name /vsistdout/ (you need
> the trailing slash) . You likely need GDAL 1.8 or later for it to work.

Elijah,

It also seems like a suitable job for ogrinfo.  It reports geometry as
WKT to the console, and you can use -sql, -where, -spat and -fid
mechanisms to select features of interest.

Best regards,
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