Thanks ! On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sebastian E. Ovide wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I have MapInfo mixed geometry files. As MapServer doesn't support layers >> wityh mixed geometry, Is it possible to use gdal for extracting its points, >> its polygaons etc... and save them in different files ? >> > > Sebastian, > > You can do something like: > > ogr2ogr your_points.shp mixed.tab -where "ogr_geometry='point'" > > ogr2ogr your_lines.shp mixed.tab -where "ogr_geometry='linestring'" > > ogr2ogr your_lines.shp mixed.tab \ > -where "ogr_geometry='polygon' or ogr_geometry='multipolygon'" > > Note that MapServer can draw from a mixed file, but you would need > to define a layer for each type of geometry you want to draw and > there are inefficiencies since the other geometries are discarded > after some expense reading for the layers they don't apply to. So > splitting things, as above, is best for large files. > > Best regards, > -- > > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, > [email protected] > light and sound - activate the windows | > http://pobox.com/~warmerdam<http://pobox.com/%7Ewarmerdam> > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent > > -- Sebastian E. Ovide
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