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When to run ogr2ogr to export specific polygons?
When I run ogr2ogr command to export some specific polygons from .osm.pbf file, downloaded from OSM, I get an error Warning 1: layer names ignored in combination with -sql. I use -sql tag to get get I downloaded the germany.osm.pbf from geofabrik and would like to extract all the harbours.
Which is the most flexible way to use ogr2ogr?
The most flexible way to do this is to use the -sql command which will take any sql statement. One way in which ogr2ogr excels above using the pgsql2shp tool is that ogr2ogr can export multiple tables at once. This is pretty handy for sharing your postgis data with others who do not have a postgis database.
How is OGR used to import non-spatial data?
Using OGR to Import Non-spatial Data While OGR was designed primarily to transform data between different spatial datasources, it is a little known fact that it can be used as well for importing non-spatial datasources such as Dbase files and CSV files. Importing Dbase file into PostgreSQL using Ogr2Ogr
What kind of data format does OGR support?
Ogr supports many data formats here is a subset of the ones we commonly use: ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo Tab file, CSV, DBF, GML, KML, Interlis, SQLite, GeoPackage,SpatiaLite, ODBC, ESRI GeoDatabase (MDB format), ESRI GDB database, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, MySQL.
What do you need to know about ogr2ogr Docs?
The Ogr2Ogr doc says: GetLayerDefinition a_layer_name” and “GetLayerMetadata a_layer_name” can be used as special SQL requests to get respectively the definition and metadata of a FileGDB table as
Why does SQL server-ogr2ogr does not create tables?
It works fine exept that it does not load the GEOGRAPHY colum (area), it remains NULL. Im using the file provided in the guide and the user in the connection string is the admin so it is not a permission problem. Thank you all in advance. Solved it adding -lco UPLOAD_GEOM_FORMAT=wkt to the command, its related to some geometry formating.
Why is ogr2ogr not opening my shapefile?
First, ogr2ogr couldn’t open your shapefile, and you realized permissions issues were in fact affecting the OS user accessing your shapefile. But there is an important lesson here for others, specifically, ogr2ogr’s error message on this point was misleading!
How to run ogr2ogr command as Sudo?
At first, consider executing your ogr2ogr command as sudo to rule-out permissions issues until after you know for certain your script is working as intended. Also as @user1919 realized, make sure your SQL user has sufficient privileges on both the database targeted by your script, as well as the spatial_ref_sys table.