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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I use ogr2ogr to convert a shapefile to KML there are
no “Name” or “Description” fields in the output and all
attributes are lined up.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I try to create a KML file from my code and populate the
data both “Name” and “Description” fields are included in
the output.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have tried not a variety of things in the call to KML’s
CreateDataSource</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Not setting any options (i.e. passing a NULL)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Setting both to empty strings</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>CSLSetNameValue(
ogrOptions, <font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>"NameField"</span></font>,
<font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>""</span></font>);</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>CSLSetNameValue(
ogrOptions, <font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>"DescriptionField"</span></font>,
<font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>""</span></font>);</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'> Setting both to “None”</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>CSLSetNameValue(
ogrOptions, <font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>"NameField"</span></font>,
<font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>"None"</span></font>);</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>CSLSetNameValue(
ogrOptions, <font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>"DescriptionField"</span></font>,
<font color=maroon><span style='color:maroon'>"None"</span></font>);</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>None of the above will remove the 2 fields from the
output KML as a result all real attribute values are sifted up 2 places. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>I looked in the ogr2ogr.cpp and I do not see any
parameters getting passed into the call.</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Does anyone have any idea what might be causing
this?</span></font></p>
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font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Bruce</span></font></p>
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