[Qgis-user] Re:Newbie question - gml files

[Sam Vekemans]

Ok, i tried the big bad ogr2ogr.exe and got an error

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jBGtPGH81IaE3YFb5Tf70A?feat=directlink


And the link on the wiki is broken :(
http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Ogr2ogr

Could anyone explain 'what' this problem actually is? ... is it the way that
i am opening up the .gml file from qgis?
I think that i need to set the project 'projection'  1st.   And i think i
did that, setting it to 'NAD83 (CSRS) EPSG : 4617'
so it says "+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +no_defs"
...  the .shp file opens up with the right projection.

And apparently qgis 'should' be able to open up this .gml file without using
ogr2ogr.exe

I think it's because i dont have postGISgrass or ArcGIS? installed, or
perhaps it's some python library file which is not installed correctly?

Thanks,
Sam

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >P.S, if anyone is bored, my task is rather simple.
> >Download all of the canvec .gml files, then convert them to .shp format
> >and save each map feature as a separate .shp file (province size)
>
>
>
> >... then zip and upload it to some website, like mediafire.com or any other
>
> >file sharing site.
>
> Hi,
>
> you could try with gdal/ogr.
>
> I think the last version is capable to convert GML.
>
> ogr2ogr.exe -f "ESRI Shapefile" folder-result file.gml
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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