[gdal-dev] How to write WKB as string?

Roger André randre at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 10:18:20 PDT 2015


<grin>  Yes Even, exportToWkb() was something I tried, but I thought there
might be an easy way to get the ASCII form of the WKB, rather than the
straight binary that I got when I wrote out to a text file.

Norman, thanks for the links. I'll go peruse them.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Norman Vine <nhv at cape.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 14, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a tool which currently exports geometry using the ExportToWkt()
> function.  It works great, but I'd like to try reducing the size of my
> output files by using a format like the string representation of WKB that
> shp2pgsql produsces when creating SQL insert files.  Is there a export
> function available in GDAL that I could use for this?
>
> I'm looking at http://www.gdal.org/classOGRGeometry.html currently, but
> have not yet spotted what I'm looking for.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> see
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr__api_8h.html#ad5c94ae76c09774dba8725c24daeefd6
> or
> http://www.gdal.org/classOGRGeometry.html#a9a3ad2f9b55285be500ca6ac5dc75d1d
>
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