Jim,

GML driver doesn't support reporting of the geometry type for the layer.
However, you will get the right geometry when you ask for the geometry
itself. Try "ogrinfo -al test.gml" and check the reported geometries.

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:33 AM, jim hopper <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ok, I got gdal rebuilt with xercesc support, and I can read it with
> ogrinfo.
> But it says:
>
> Had to open data source read-only.
> INFO: Open of `test.gml'
>      using driver `GML' successful.
>
> Layer name: ford_plant_2d_bldgs
> Geometry: Unknown (any)
>
> But the original shape file does have geometry:
>
> INFO: Open of `ford_plant_2d_bldgs.shp'
>      using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
>
> Layer name: ford_plant_2d_bldgs
> Geometry: Polygon
> Feature Count: 2531
> Extent: (370010.126533, 4337857.290364) - (372942.794685, 4341771.522431)
> Layer SRS WKT:
> PROJCS["WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_15N",
>    GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
>        DATUM["WGS_1984",
>            SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],
>        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],
>        UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],
>    PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
>    PARAMETER["False_Easting",500000.0],
>    PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],
>    PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",-93.0],
>    PARAMETER["Scale_Factor",0.9996],
>    PARAMETER["Latitude_Of_Origin",0.0],
>    UNIT["Meter",1.0]]
>
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