[gdal-dev] Missing geometry type when using ogr2ogr to write FileGDB

[Even Rouault]

Le dimanche 21 avril 2013 17:49:28, Stefan Keller a écrit :
> When trying to use ogr2ogr (ver. 1.9) to convert a Shapefile (geometry type
> Polygon) to file geodatabase (FileGDB) I'm getting an error like "FGDB
> layers cannot be created with a wkbUnknown layer geometry type.":
> 
> $ ogr2ogr -f filegdb out.gdb polygon.shp
> 
> When adding -nlt it seems to work:
> 
> $ ogr2ogr -f filegdb out.gdb polygon.shp -nlt POLYGON
> 
> This is to a) an usual OGR behavior, and b) a show stopper for my script
> because I don't know before hand (and won't check with ogrinfo) what
> geometry type the input source is. Seems like there is a problem in the
> FileGDB driver.
> 
> Can anybody confirm and explain this bug?

Stefan,

I don't confirm that behaviour with either 1.9.2 or 1.10.0. Conversion works 
fine for me without specifying -nlt. What is the geometry type reported by 
ogrinfo on polygon.shp ?

Even