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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Call </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>OGRRegisterAll();
on the line right before GDALOpen();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Martin</span><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Smart, Gary<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 20, 2009 2:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gdal-dev] How do I open vector files (e.g. shp) using GDAL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
understand that GDAL can open vector formats as if they were a dataset?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>E.g.
I read that it is possible to pass the GDALOpen either a single .shp file (in
which case it treats it as if it only had one layer) or a directory containing
multiple .shp files – which presumably it opens as multi layered?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>However,
whenever I try to open vector files in this way (directory or file) I get…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ERROR
4 - blah blah is not recognised as a supported file format”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
am still new to all this (having only just conquered raster formats) so I
suspect I am doing something pretty dumb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Perhaps
someone can help?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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