[gdal-dev] Raster attribute tables in GDAL?

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 21 mai 2015 15:14:46, jramm a écrit :
> That sounds great. Does this driver allow you to only write the dbf file
> (and not the shp/shx etc files?)

Yes, if you create a layer with a None geometry type, no .shp,.shx will be 
created.

> 
> I can't find much on the docs for doing that:
> http://www.gdal.org/drv_shapefile.html
> 
> I'll have a look through the header files...

Basically follow http://gdal.org/1.11/ogr/ogr_apitut.html "Writing to OGR" and 
ignore what is related to geometries and pass wkbNone instead of wkbPoint when 
calling CreateLayer()

> 
> On 20 May 2015 at 15:38, Even Rouault-2 [via OSGeo.org] <
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> ml-node+s1560n5206664h33 at n6.nabble.com> wrote:
> > Le mercredi 20 mai 2015 15:57:38, jramm a écrit :
> > > Does GDAL have any support for writing ESRI-style raster attribute
> > 
> > tables?
> > 
> > > These are the .vat.dbf files that often accompany geotiffs and other
> > > formats....
> > 
> > I wasn't particularly aware of those sidecar files, but looking a bit I
> > found
> > one sample at https://dl.vecnet.org/files/j67313813
> > 
> > It seems it is a standard .DBF file, so you can read/write it with the
> > OGR Shapefile driver.
> > 
> > Even
> > 
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