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How do I get the domain from an OGRSpatialReference?

I would like to know what the projected bounds are for a spatial reference using OGRSpatialReference. Is there some way to use the GetProjParm method to get this information? An example of what ...
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Python - OGR: Transform coordinates from meter to decimal degrees

I have a point in a shapefile. The shapefile is in a WGS_1984_Web_Mercator Projected Coordinate System. I want to get the coordinates of that point in decimal degrees with GDAL/OGR in Python. I am ...
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Python GDAL/OGR: check lines geometries connectivity

I'm working with shapefiles representing roads, so basically it's stored as (poly)lines. I need to perform a road connectivity checking. In other words, I want to ensure that roads meant to ...
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OGR UnionCascaded gives strange lines (flat polygons)

I'm using OGR to perform a union using UnionCascaded. All my polygons have been created by GDAL polygonize which ensures that all polygons follow pixel edges and should therefore align nicely. But I ...
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How to test if geometry is inside another?

I need to tell whether geometries from a shapefile are inside other geometries or not. For example, I want to test if there are trees (represented as points in trees.shp) inside the urban areas ...
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How to rename field names in a shapefile?

I need to rename the field names (attributes) in a shapefile. Is there an easy way to do this from the command line?
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OGR - Weird GeomType -2147483645 on polygon shapefile

I am trying to import a shapefile (multipolygon) in an app with ogr but I got an error about invalid geom type. If I inspect the data with ogr like this: datasource = ogr.Open("c:\\temp\\data.shp") ...
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OGR OSM-driver unable to open datasource

I want to read an OSM file with OGR. I use Version GDAL 1.9.1, released 2012/05/15. To read a SQLITE file works fine: $ ogrinfo test.sqlite INFO: Open of `test.sqlite' using driver `SQLite' ...
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Get vector features inside a specific extent

The problem: I have a very large vector layer with many features and a much smaller raster layer in a defined region. I want to get only those vector features which are within the raster layers ...
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Using GDAL/OGR exes in php

could you point me in the next logical direction? I wanted to use the gdal and run the exe commands through my web application, but have no clue what the next step should be after running the ...
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OGR GetX() returns always zero

I am trying to get the first x-coordinates of a polygon. However I only get zero in return. What could cause that? import os, sys, gdal, ogr from gdalconst import * driver = ...
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OGR CreateLayer returns TypeError

I'm trying to create a shapefile layer based on the spatial projection of an already existing raster. (Ultimately, this will be used in gdal.Polygonize to get a shape from my raster data.) However, I ...
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GDAL OGR distance different than in ArcGIS

I want to determine the shortest distance between a point and a line. I use the following Python script to do so. If I compare the result of the script with the result of ArcMap's Near Analysis, I get ...
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OGR Info - Check for spatial index?

If we want to get information about a vector layer (shapefile for example) we could use ogrinfo: ogrinfo -so myshapefile.shp mylayer This returns a lot of pertinent information about the shapefile. ...
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Installing GDAL with Java Bindings (gdal.jar) on Ubuntu 12.10

I am trying to build a postgis importer for mutliple shapefiles. After geotools took orders of magnitude longer than shp2pgsql to import my data, I decided to attempt to use the java bindings to GDAL ...
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How to use -lco options in gdal_contour?

I'm trying to create contours from geotiff raster with gdal_contour. My output format is Postgresql and I would like to ovewrite the existing table. When I do: gdal_contour -a 1 -f PostgreSQL -i 50 ...
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How to interpret the OSGeo4w software version under Advanced Install option?

When choosing to install QGIS Desktop using the OSGeo4w advanced install option, I noticed that there are what looks like ambiguous software versions to choose. For example, currently QGIS Desktop ...
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SHAPE FILE to TIGER with OGR

How do I convert SHAPE FILE to TIGER using GDAL (OGR). I try but throw following error:(layer number)is not a known TIGER/Line layer.
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Simplify polygon in OGR

We use ArcObjects pretty heavily and simplify polygons using something similar to the ITopologicalOperation::Simplify(void). No tolerance is passed in as the parameter (it uses the XY tolerance of ...
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How do I get the pixel value of a GDAL raster under an OGR point without NumPy?

I am working on a computational model of the abundance of wild pollinators across a landscape. The model itself is complete, and I am now struggling with a post-processing step. I have my GDAL ...
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GDAL/OGR Determine if dataset is raster or vector

I am writing a script using the GDAL/OGR Python bindings and it is possible that the user may provide a raster dataset or a vector dataset as input. If the user provides a vector dataset, the script ...
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How do you open shapefiles with ogr2ogr

I'm following along the D3 tutorial, and on this line: ogr2ogr \ -f GeoJSON \ -where "adm0_a3 IN ('GBR', 'IRL')" \ subunits.json \ ne_10m_admin_0_map_subunits.shp run into the following ...
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How do I Capture GDAL projection and create matching output (OGR or GDAL) shape files?

Working in C++, using GDAL and OGR: Depending on what the user has supplied for image input, I need to output point (or other) shape files in the same projection as the input raster images. The ...
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OGR-Driver GML axis order handling (GDAL, QGIS)

By default the OGR-Driver will swap the axis order to longitude, latitude for geographic coordinate systems. "Since OGR 1.8.0, the GML driver has coordinate system support. This is only reported ...
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How to detect a GDAL/OGR 'Warning'?

When I run a batch script using a GDAL/OGR program, I can detect if an error occured by checking ERRORLEVEL for the value 1. When using GDAL/OGR in python or .NET, I get an exception when an error ...
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DXF to georeferenced SHP

I know how to set projection and georeference bounds of scanned TIFF file, by using gdal, but I don't know how to do the same for vector file. For example I georeferenced TIFF file by using this ...
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Read an ArcGIS Feature dataset using GDAL

I am new to GDAL in Python and would like to use it to create a list of populated layers in a ArcGIS mdb Feature datasets. I have the code below that provides a list of all the populated layers but ...
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How to programmatically create exports from PostGIS database into different file formats (e.g. shapefile, dxf, dgn,…)?

Is there a kind of wrapper/library written in python which would enable me to programatically create exports from postgis database into different file formats (most common being, shapefile, dxf, ...
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Slow FileGDB Performance in GDAL

I am attempting to write many ASPRS LAS point files into an ESRI File Geodatabase using my compilation of GDAL 1.9.2. The FileGDB driver for GDAL/OGR appears to be incredibly slow when writing large ...
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Why does Ogr2Ogr Postgres import fail?

I have a lot of S57 files that need to be imported to PostgresDB. The process takes over 2 hours. In order to improve performance, I have tried using PG_USE_COPY to use copy instead of DB inserts. I ...
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How to use the OGR/GDAL configure options in QGIS python environment

I’m looking for a solution how to use the OGR/GDAL configure options (--config) in the qgis python environment. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ConfigOptions Setting special configure options is ...
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Latest version of ogr2ogr fails with Layer Creation

I am able to succesfully run the ogr2ogr in adding S57 data to PostgresDB. The version I use is GDAL 1.7.0b2, FWTools 2.4.7 and release date 2010/01/19 I upgraded my version to GDAL 1.9.1 and ...
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Shape-file encoding problem in QGIS 1.9.0 (built with GDAL 1.9.2)

I have googled a lot but failed to find the answer. My configuration is: Ubuntu 11.10 Quantum GIS - 1.9.0-Master 'Master' (caae7b7) GDAL 1.9.2, released 2012/10/08 Shape-files refuse to open in ...
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GDAL.RasterizeLayer not ported to the C# bindings?

I am trying to use the OSGeo.GDAL.Gdal.RasterizeLayer(…) from GDAL 1.9.2 and it requires some SWIGTYPE parameters: OSGeo.GDAL.Gdal.RasterizeLayer( OSGeo.GDAL.Dataset dataset, int bands, ...
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How current is GDAL in Java

I have used the ogr2ogr to import various formats to Postgres and have used GDAL utilities. Is there a complete Java port for these tools? Or are they simply wrappers calling JNI to C++ code? I have ...
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Why does ogr's CreateLayer() return None?

Why does ogr's driver method CreateLayer return None? I'm using python 2.7 with gdal 1.9.1. path = r'D:\_tempAuto' out_shp = '%s\test_OGR.shp' % (path,) driver = ogr.GetDriverByName('ESRI ...
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Using osgeo modules in ArcGIS10.1 and QGIS 1.8 python shells

This is related to an old question of mine - Issues with osgeo - qgis.core and arcpy modules Now in new versions of all the software QGIS Lisboa (1.8), ArcGIS 10.1 and pyScripter 2.5.3. They all use ...
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How to stop writeOGR from abbreviating Field Names when using “ESRI Shapefile” driver

I'm currently using the following script to add some attribute data from a table to lots of individual shapefiles: library(rgdal) specieslist <- read.csv("SpeciesList1.txt", header=F) attdata ...
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Getting Field value for a given coordinate out of ESRI Shapefile using GDAL/OGR

I have a bunch of ESRI shapefiles that contain Land Cover data across Canada (provided by Geobase). I need to query the files and obtain the value of a certain field (called COVTYPE) in a given ...
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How to catch PostgreSQL/PostGIS errors in GDAL/OGR Python bindings?

Is it possible to catch PostgreSQL output error messages in OGR after a query has failed? For example conn.ExecuteSQL('SELECT * FROM non_existing_table;') In Postgres this returns an error ...
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Is there a way to properly have GDAL raise exceptions in Python?

I am working with GDAL in Python and have wanted to get GDAL to raise exceptions so that I can do something useful with them. For instance if a file cannot be opened with gdal.Open() I would like to ...
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Are there GUI resources for gdal and ogr?

For those who are new to the programming side of GIS, I feel that a lot of great tools and resources are inacessible. I am interested in GUI based wizards for handling geoprocessing with libraries ...
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Eliminate small polygons from shapefile

I downloaded GTOPO30 *.DEM files, and extracted a contour line at 2000m altitude using gdal_contour. In the resulting shapefile, I have many small polygons in areas where the altitude is close to that ...
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OGR/GDAL threading results in low core utilization

I'm trying to process some raster data using ogr/gdal and I can't seem to get full utilization of all the cores on my machine. When I only run the process on a single core, I get 100% utilization of ...
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ArcGIS SP4 fails to open file geodatabases created with ogr2ogr

I've been using the new FileGDB support in gdal-1.9.0 to create file geodatabases that can be opened in ArcGIS. For example (I'm doing this all on one line, so I'm not certain this will run as ...
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UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment

I am trying to execute this code, import osgeo.ogr def findPoints(geometry, results): for i in range(geometry.GetPointCount()): x,y,z = geometry.GetPoint(i) if results['north'] == ...
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Is Django's LayerMapping capable of putting a static value into all features?

I'm using GeoDjango's LayerMapping utility to try and import a set of features. The catch is that aside from the attributes in the source layer, I want all the destination features to have the same ...
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API documentation for Gdal/Ogr with C#

I want to assign projection to shapefile in my web C# application, for this i am using Gdal/OGR/OSR C# bindings and add osr_csharp.dll and ogr_csharp.dll references. But i am facing some difficulty ...
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Can ESRI's File Geodatabase API be Redistributed?

ESRI's file geodatabase API can now be used with GDAL/OGR - http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html however each individual seems to have to login to ESRI and download the API files individually. For ...
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Can I change the GDAL/OGR library that QGIS uses?

I have been adding a new format to OGR, all seems well and OGRInfo works. Now I would like to test my code out using QGIS. Is there an easy way to switch which GDAL lib QGIS uses on a windows box? ...

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