[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr project/transform CRS in the same database table

Hector muro muro.hector at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 14:13:51 PST 2020


Oh that's a great idea.

I have to use SQL Server (not by personal choice) and had given it a go
with sqlite as dialect, bur was probably too focused on ogr2ogr. I also
didn't know about the "indirect_SQLite" dialect.

I will give a try at what you suggest.

Thanks for the help :)

Hector


On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, 20:56 jratike80, <jukka.rahkonen at maanmittauslaitos.fi>
wrote:

> I would say that it is best to still use ogrinfo. You did not tell what is
> your database so I can't tell the exact recipe for you but you will learn
> it. You need to know that there are different SQL dialects for GDAL: OGR
> SQL, SQLite, indirect_SQLite, and the native SQL for your database.  They
> are all documented.  If your database does not have native ST_Transform
> support then you take it from SQLite/Spatialite. For overriding the native
> SQL of your database you may need to use -dialect indirect_SQLite.
>
> Here is another example with a shapefile. A combination of OGR SQL and
> SQLite dialects is needed.
>
> Add a new column
> ogrinfo -sql "alter table states add wkt_geom text" states.shp
>
> There is space for only 254 charactes in a shapefile and that is not enough
> for big polygons but we can do at least something with a little trick.
>
> ogrinfo -dialect sqlite -sql "update states set
> wkt_geom=ST_AsText(ST_Transform(ST_Centroid(geometry),3857))" states.shp
>
> Check what we got
> ogrinfo states.shp -al
> ...
> SERVICE (Real) = 637487.000000000
>   MANUAL (Real) = 302635.000000000
>   P_MALE (Real) = 0.496000000
>   P_FEMALE (Real) = 0.504000000
>   SAMP_POP (Real) = 736744.000000000
>   wkt_geom (String) = POINT(-13405860.170799 6003812.424048)
>   MULTIPOLYGON (((-122.400749 48.225395,-122.461586 48.228542,-122.453156
> 48.128674,-122.360077 48.06028,-122.513245 48.134155,-122.540802
> 48.21064,-122.507858 48.253971,-122.403137 48....
>
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>
>
> hectormauer wrote
> > Oh, I see. That's great.
> >
> > But what if the Database does not have ST_Transform support? Could we
> > still
> > achieve a similar approach by means of ogr2ogr?
> >
> > (I should have mentioned this in my first email).
> >
> > Thanks again!
> > Hector
> >
> > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 at 20:14, jratike80 <
>
> > jukka.rahkonen@
>
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> No, unfortunately it is not possible with one ogr2ogr command.
> >>
> >> You need two commands and you must use ogrinfo. Here an example about
> >> adding
> >> another geometry column and populating it with EPSG:3857 version of
> >> original
> >> EPSG:4326 geometries.
> >>
> >> ogrinfo PG:"host=localhost port=5432 dbname=test user=user
> >> password=password" -sql "alter table states add column geom2 geometry"
> >>
> >> ogrinfo PG:"host=localhost port=5432 dbname=test user=user
> >> password=password" -sql "update states set
> >> geom2=ST_Transform(wkb_geometry,3857)"
> >>
> >> You can do all that is possible with SQL also with ogrinfo.
> >>
> >>
> >> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> hectormauer wrote
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I was wondering if someone knew if it's possible to project or
> >> transform
> >> > within the same table in a database, using ogr2ogr.
> >> >
> >> > What I mean is, I have a table with fields: id, id2, geom_wkt_27700
> and
> >> I
> >> > would like, using a single command to create an extra column
> >> > "geom_wkt_4326" for instance. It does not have to be of type geometry,
> >> but
> >> > could be text for instance.
> >> >
> >> > I guess the other plausible solution would be to create a temporary
> >> table
> >> > with that transformation on it and reference it to the first one by id
> >> for
> >> > instance.
> >> >
> >> > Any help is appreciated!
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Hector
> >> >
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