[postgis-users] VPF import?

[Frank Warmerdam]

John Reid wrote:
> Any suggestions/recommendations about a possible method for importing 
> VPF data into PostGIS?
> 
> According to 
> http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/ogrhtml/ogr_formats.html 
> GDAL/OGR does not support this format.  Looks like no support in GRASS 
> either.

John,

OGDI does support VPF and OGR can be built with OGDI support enabled.  I have
successfully used ogr2ogr with OGDI support enabled to load VMap 0 data into
PostGIS. Feel free to contact me directory for details if/when you run into
problems.

Best regards,

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