[GRASS-user] ogr2ogr help

[Brent Wood]

Hi,

The help can be arcane, but it is there. Given the wide array of formats, each with its own idiosyncrasies, I don't ever see using ogr2ogr being simple & straightforward.

However, for your problem:

ogr2ogr --help
Usage: ogr2ogr [--help-general] [-skipfailures] [-append] [-update] [-gt n]
               [-select field_list] [-where restricted_where]
               [-sql <sql statement>]
               [-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-preserve_fid] [-fid FID]
               [-a_srs srs_def] [-t_srs srs_def] [-s_srs srs_def]
               [-f format_name] [-overwrite] [[-dsco NAME=VALUE] ...]
               dst_datasource_name src_datasource_name
               [-lco NAME=VALUE] [-nln name] [-nlt type] [layer [layer ...]]

It says the destination name is given before the source name, whereas your command has these reversed. 

So instead of 
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32610 myfile.shp mynewfile.shp

try 
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32610 mynewfile.shp myfile.shp



HTH,

   Brent Wood




Brent Wood
DBA/GIS consultant
NIWA, Wellington
New Zealand
>>> <mtnbiketrail at zzz.com> 01/26/09 1:39 PM >>>
Hi,
beginner user. First off, am disappointed with help files for syntax for 
ogr2ogr.
I have a shp file( with .shx, and .dbf) and want to convert it to a 
different projection. When I run ogr2ogr from command line, it doesn't 
do anything, I tried to set the debug level for more verbose and there 
is not enough information to get debug to work. I assume debug is like 
verbose. I tried --debug [on], --debug 1. Just get back usage description.

Here is the command I'm using:
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32610 myfile.shp mynewfile.shp

it just returns the usage description help file. No errors, no way of 
knowing what is wrong. I looked online at gdal.org and it is almost 
worthless for help.
p.s. I also have "Desktop GIS" by Gary Sherman and not all the book 
examples work(pg 188).thanks,
Tom
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