[gdal-dev] laundering of field's names in GDAL

[jratike80]

I believe that the answer in gis.stackexchange 
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/219177/can-colon-character-be-used-in-shapefile-field-names
is correct. The dBase III format that is used in shapefiles for storing
attributes does not accept colon in field names, and GDAL does not want to
write invalid shapefiles.

Laundering has an effect if data are converted into PostGIS, Spatialite or
other formats for which both "attribute_name" and "attribute:name" are valid
as field names. 

-Jukka Rahkonen-



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