[gdal-dev] Create a shape file with polygons

[Jorge]

Hi, 

Thank you very much in advance. I am developing with C++, but I will try to understand the code. I think it will easy.

Thank you.

Jorge

El 17/01/2011, a las 18:18, Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> escribió:

>> I`m new developing software with GDAL and OGR libraries. I has used the code
>> from the OGR web that read and write a shapefile (points). What I really
>> want is to read and write shapefiles with polygons.
> 
> Hi Jorge
> if you are using Python this [0] is the best resource out there.
> Look at the sample in week 2 of the tutorial for effectively writing
> (and reading) a Polygon shapefile.
> If you are not using Python you should not have too much problems for
> converting the Python code to the language you are using.
> Another very good resource is to look at the source code: again,
> supposing that you are using Python, this sample [1] should work for
> you
> 
> ciao
> P
> 
> [0] http://www.gis.usu.edu/~chrisg/python/2009/
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/swig/python/samples/assemblepoly.py
> 
> -- 
> Paolo Corti
> GIS specialist and web developer
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