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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to use the –where command in ogr2ogr (1.9.0) to separate out different geometry types, as was described in the FAQ for converting gdb to shp files, but when I do the following command<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ogr2ogr.exe <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>-f ESRI Shapefile points.shp input.gdb -a_srs EPSG:4326 -nln points -where 'ogr_geometry="POINT"' <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>it thinks that the –where… part of the command is the name of a gdb layer. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>I tried moving the –where part of the command earlier, to before the –f argument, but then it just hangs and doesn’t complete at all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong here? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Also, when I try to go from shapefile to geodb in Windows, it only works if I’m running as administrator. Is that just a requirement? It doesn’t require root in Linux. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>