Moritz Lennert wrote: > Isn't this just due to the fact that ogr ignores the file you point to > and just takes account of the directory if the datasource should be a > directory (i.e. for shapefiles) ? > > So, the original description is correct (i.e. that for shapefiles dsn is > a directory), but in practice it doesn't matter since ogr takes care of > that.
If you point OGR at a directory, it takes it for a "data source", and the OGR supported vector files inside for available "OGR layers" (at least in case of ESRI Shapefiles and MapInfo files). If you point it directly at an *.shp file, the whole "data source" is that single shapefile, and the only "layer" available at the same time. Try "ogrinfo -al -so /path/to/dir/with/shapefiles" or "v.in.ogr -l dsn=/path/to/dir/with/shapefiles". Maciek _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
