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I know how to do this within Quantum GIS but I have 30+ shapefiles that need to be converted to GML. Is there a Python script sample or plugin for Quantum GIS that I can use to convert my shapefiles to GML?

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  • Depending on your QGIS install you probably have GDAL/OGR installed already. You could then create a quick batch process from ogr2ogr to do the job - after all, that's what QGIS is using the the background anyway.
    – om_henners
    Commented Jul 10, 2012 at 4:56
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    ogr2ogr seg.shp pla.gml segments does it not work for you?
    – urcm
    Commented Jul 10, 2012 at 6:54
  • How to convert SHP into GML in OS VerctorMap Local format?
    – Nickon
    Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 9:09
  • @om_henners could you add your comment as an answer so the question can be marked as solved if the OP agrees?
    – steko
    Commented Dec 14, 2012 at 15:58
  • OS? Windows or Linux?
    – nickves
    Commented Dec 15, 2012 at 11:42

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With the installation of QGIS you will have the GDAL/OGR libraries installed. OGR supports both shapefiles and GML (and many other vector formats). You can then create a batch process from ogr2ogr to perform the transformation.

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You can do this from the command-line shell using ogr2ogr ‒ that is, outside QGIS. E.g. on GNU/Linux with bash:

cd /path/to/shapefiles
for file in $(ls *.shp); 
   do 
     ogr2ogr "$file" `basename "$file" .shp`.gml; 
   done

That would be a “batch process” as mentioned in some comments to this same question.

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