<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6603.0">
<TITLE>file size balloons when converting gml to tab, shp with ogr2ogr</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I've been experimenting with converting GML documents to mapinfo tab and esri shp</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">formats. I have the same files previously created with commercial software with</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">exactly the same record layouts. The files I've created with ogr2ogr seem to be up</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to 5 to 10 times larger than the same file (and format) created with the commercial software.</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">When you view the files, they appear identical, line for line, attribute for attribute.</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there somebody who could point me in the right direction to determine why?</FONT>
</P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks!</FONT>
</P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Peter Rushforth</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Geography Division</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Statistics Canada</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Ottawa Ontario</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">K1A 0T6</FONT></SPAN>
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>