[gdal-dev] Question about ogr2ogr and geojson url

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Maxime Demers <burton449geo <at> gmail.com> writes:


> However, I have Failure Unable to open datasource with drivers... when
trying to convert the geojson to shapefile from the url.
> 
> ogr2ogr output.shp http://localhost:3000/711/points.geojson
> 
> Can ogr2ogr convert dynamic geojson like I am trying to do, or it has to
be a static geojson file?


Hi,

This works for me with GDAL 2.0, gisinternals Windows build:

ogrinfo -ro -al "http://www.yournavigation.org/api/1.0/
gosmore.php?format=geojson&flat=52.215676&flon=5.963946&
tlat=52.2573&tlon=6.1799&v=motorcar&fast=1&layer=mapnik"


Result:

      using driver `GeoJSON' successful.

Layer name: OGRGeoJSON
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 1
Extent: (5.963552, 52.196300) - (6.187562, 52.257125)
Layer SRS WKT:
GEOGCS["WGS 84",
    DATUM["WGS_1984",
        SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
        TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
    UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9108"]],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]
OGRFeature(OGRGeoJSON):0
  LINESTRING (5.963585 52.21595,5.963585 52.21595,5.963563...


-Jukka Rahkonen-