The Surface tag is not supported before GDAL/OGR v1.8<div>I had a similar GML a few weeks back.</div><div>Using the beta release of GDAL/OGR v1.8 you can convert.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Paul</div><div><br><br>
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
Hopefully this is also the forum to post OGR-related enquiries. I don't see<br>
a specific OGR list.<br>
<br>
I have a very large .gml file with multiple layers in it. I would like to<br>
export one of these layers to .shp. It is a polygon layer (of lakes).<br>
However, I am getting the error:<br>
<br>
ERROR 1: Unrecognised geometry type <Surface>.<br>
<br>
The ogr command I was using:<br>
<br>
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" output.shp input.gml layername<br>
<br>
Any thoughts? Is it possible the polygon layer is somehow incorrectly<br>
defined as a surface in the GML? Any way I can force it to be a polygon? Or<br>
is it something else entirely? I don't often work with .gml, so may be<br>
missing something obvious...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Darren<br>
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