Using ogr2ogr, how to keep the geometry when converting to CSV? ( Nothing relevant here: http://www.gdal.org/drv_csv.html ) $ ogr2ogr -f "CSV" MyLayer.csv MyLayer.geojson Here is the begin of the result file: $ head -n4 MyLayer.csv OBJECTID,ID,VAR1,VAR_TXT,VAR2,VAR_TXT 677406,145477,0,AB94,51,rocks � distribute 267075,145400,0,AB94,47,road acces � distribute 101700,145434,0,AB94,47,road acces � distribute I would like to keep the geometry (X,Y) on the two first columns for example: $ head -n4 MyLayer.csv X,Y,OBJECTID,ID,VAR1,VAR_TXT,VAR2,VAR_TXT 152.282,635.743,677406,145477,0,AB94,51,rocks � distribute 150.624,632.052,267075,145400,0,AB94,47,road acces � distribute 151.194,631.049,101700,145434,0,AB94,47,road acces � distribute And I encountered an error if I translate the same data but as a shapefile (or a *.mif Mapinfo file) to CSV: $ ogr2ogr -f "CSV" MyLayer2.csv MyLayer.shp FAILED: Layer MyLayer already exists, and -append not specified. Consider using -append, or -overwrite. ERROR 1: Terminating translation prematurely after failed translation of layer MyLayer (use -skipfailures to skip errors) It seems it absolutely wants to keep using the previously named file (from the conversion from the GeoJSON file above). Any help appreciated. Thanks. _________________________________ Usage of ogr2ogr: Usage: ogr2ogr [--help-general] [-skipfailures] [-append] [-update] [-select field_list] [-where restricted_where] [-progress] [-sql <sql statement>] [-dialect dialect] [-preserve_fid] [-fid FID] [-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-geomfield field] [-a_srs srs_def] [-t_srs srs_def] [-s_srs srs_def] [-f format_name] [-overwrite] [[-dsco NAME=VALUE] ...] dst_datasource_name src_datasource_name [-lco NAME=VALUE] [-nln name] [-nlt type] [-dim 2|3|layer_dim] [layer [layer ...]]