Slicing shapefile by negative coordinates

Question

I have a shapefile that contains data for both sides of the Greenwich meridian.

According to ogrinfo, this shapefile has the extents of (-9.298157, 35.265607) - (4.327108, 45.046054). I want to copy all data in the bounding box (42.5, -0.5) - (43.5, 1). But using ogr2ogr, I got an empty shapefile (it had just 100 bytes …)! I used the following command:

ogr2ogr -progress -spat 42.5 -0.5 43.5 1 outfile.shp infile.shp

If ogr2ogr does not understand negative coordinates, then how do I get that data out of that shapefile?

Answer 1

As pointed out by @user2856, ogr2ogr does understand negative coordinates - I only specified the coordinates in the wrong order. The correct and working command is:

ogr2ogr -progress -spat -0.5 42.5 1 43.5 outfile.shp infile.shp