Hi Jaz On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Jez Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, > > > When I convert Ordnance Survey MasterMap GML to ESRI Shapefiles using > ogr2ogr, I'm getting different field numbers for the same field name in > different GML chunk files. Apologies if I have the wrong end of the stick, > but wouldn't your proposed interface therefore require me to invoke ogr2ogr > differently for each different GML chunk file, in order to accommodate the > different field ordering?
The proposed API addition doesn't affect the behavior of existing applications such as ogr2ogr. > Assuming I'm right, wouldn't it be more useable for the interface to use > field names rather than numbers? IMHO for developers it's easier to work with indexes of fields rather than with their names. Regards Martin _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
