[Mapserver-users] GML to SHP Conversion

[John Hagstrand]

Hi Frank,
I downloaded your Open_EV package and I am using ogr2ogr.  It works 
great.  Thanks a lot.
John

At 11:01 AM 3/8/2003, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>John Hagstrand wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I need to convert OGC GML files to ESRI Shape files and back again.
>>What's the best way to do that?
>
>John,
>
>OGR has limited support for GML reading and writing.  The reading only works
>if OGR is built with Xerces linked in.  The writing always works.  The
>MapServer WFS implementation uses the OGR GML support I believe.
>
>OGR also reads and writes shapefiles of course.
>
>Best regards,
>
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