[postgis-users] help with Microstation DGN data to PostGIS

[Tyler Mitchell]

Eric,
Be consoled, others DO care about DGN's - or at least getting them into a
GIS format :)
I haven't tried DGN -> Postgis with OGR before and can't give you much
advise, but I will try it myself and report back to you about my success.

As an alternative, do you have access to FME it now supports PostGIS.

Tyler


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I've been been trying to load a number of files in Microstation DGN format
into
PostGIS, and was hoping someone here had some experience doing this.  I've
been
using the ogr2ogr utility to do this:

    ogr2ogr -lco LAUNDER=YES -f "PostgreSQL" PG:dbname=testdb
D4d10.97.1.dgn

..but have found that the attribute data attached to my shapes is not being
loaded into the database.  I have also tried using the ogr2ogr utility to
create
shapefiles, and then use shp2pgsql to get that data into PostGIS:

    ogr2ogr -skipfailures -nln D4d10.97.1_polygon -skipfailures -lco
SHPT=POLYGON -f "ESRI Shapefile" D4d10.97.1/ D4d10.97.1.dgn

..which works, excepth that, again, the attribute data does not appear: the
SHP
file has all the geometry data, but the DBF file is empty.  When I use
ArcView
and do a manual "Convert to Shapefile..." all the attribute data converts
fine.
 The problem is, I have several hundred of these files to convert.

Sorry if this is a peripheral topic to this list--I realize most users are
probably most concerned with shapefiles and not DGNs.  Thanks in advance
for any
help.

Eric Jansson

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