[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr with append fails to convert truncated fields

[Tamas Szekeres]

2013/3/1 Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org>

>
> There's even a 4th option that doesn't require any code change. Create a
> OGR
> VRT file that renames the source fields to the truncated shapefile field
> names (or
> the reverse : creates a OGR VRT that renames the truncated shapefile field
> names
> to the original field names, since OGR VRT now supports since a few
> versions
> CreateFeature())
>


This may probably work, but doesn't seem to be very user friendly. Actually
I would prefer to include at least a flag to indicate that ogr2ogr should
provide mapping the fields in the same order (don't lookup field index by
name) for example:

ogr2ogr -append -f "ESRI Shapefile" -nofieldreorder destination.shp
 [source]

or with the previous fieldmap approach

ogr2ogr -append -f "ESRI Shapefile" -fieldmap "default" destination.shp
 [source]

Best regards,

Tamas
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