[gdal-dev] FileGDB driver - internal paths

[Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff]

Hi Even,

  Looks great, thanks.

  Cheers,
   Simon

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org
> wrote:

> Le mercredi 23 janvier 2013 20:59:09, Simon Lyngby Kokkendorff a écrit :
> > Hello List,
> >
> >    I'm using OGR to read a FileGDB database, perform some transformations
> > and then write an output FileGDB database. In that process I would like
> to
> > preserve the structure of the original FileGDB, i.e. put "Feature
> Classes"
> > into the right "Feature Datasets" etc.
> >    Hence, my question is whether it is possible, from the c-api of OGR,
> to
> > determine the FileGDB specific "internal path" of an OGR-layer
> > (corresponding to e.g. a "Feature Class") loaded through the FileGDB
> > driver? Perhaps it is necessary to extract this information from the XML
> > layer definition, which seem to be available via special SQL requests (in
> > gdal/ogr 1.10?) ?
>
> With GDAL/OGR 1.10, this is indeed possible. See :
>
> $ ogr2ogr -f filegdb poly.gdb poly.shp -lco
> FEATURE_DATASET=my_feature_dataset
> $ ogrinfo poly.gdb -sql "GetLayerDefinition poly" | grep CatalogPath
>   <CatalogPath>\my_feature_dataset\poly</CatalogPath>
>
> >
> >    Best Regards,
> >    Simon Kokkendorff, Danish Geodata Agency (formerly known as KMS)
>
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