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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have two goals:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1) Use ogr2ogr to get polygon data into MySQL in a non-blob format (i.e. I was hoping for WKT)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2) Get the full polygon dbf table into the same database...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have figured out a way to get data into a MySQL database using (in FWTools Shell). It is a total hack (from what I can tell the '-update' and '-overwrite' commands don't work for me, nor does the engine=MYISAM):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Step 1 (FWTools Shell):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ogr2ogr -f "MySQL" MYSQL:"test,host=27.0.0.1,user=root,port=3306" -nln test_poly -a_srs "EPSG:3857" <path to shapefile> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tables are generated, but no data....<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Step 2 (MySql Workbench):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Go to the 'test_poly' table, and manually set it's engine to "MYIASM" ..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Step 3 (FWTools Shell):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>C:>ogr2ogr -f "MySQL" MYSQL:"test,host=127.0.0.1,user=root,port=3306"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-nln test_poly -a_srs "EPSG:3857" -update -append <shapefile path><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now I see the data (**as a BLOB...need WKT have to parse…unless there is someway to parse Geometry from BLOB***) and can load it into QGIS...but totally at a loss how to achieve getting the .dbf in the same database and get to the WKT format in MySQL.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone share some guidance?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank ye!!!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Arielle Simmons<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>