On 1/16/06, Luca Manganelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am trying to convert DGN to SHP. > DGN is composed by ANNOTATION (text with coordinates AND viewing angle). > I can do this: > > ogr2ogr -nlt POINT -skipfailures -f "ESRI Shapefile" dir S:\Luca\TXTV7.dgn > > but the new shp does not have any information about angles: > > #> ogrinfo -summary S:\Luca\TXTV7.dgn elements > > INFO: Open of `S:\Luca\TXTV7.dgn' > using driver `DGN' successful. > > Layer name: elements > Geometry: Unknown (any) > Feature Count: 59817 > Extent: (1656335.478654, 5093641.729797) - (1669699.215614, 5113109.826557) > Layer SRS WKT: > (unknown) > Type: Integer (2.0) > Level: Integer (2.0) > GraphicGroup: Integer (4.0) > ColorIndex: Integer (3.0) > Weight: Integer (2.0) > Style: Integer (1.0) > EntityNum: Integer (0.0) > MSLink: Integer (0.0) > Text: String (0.0)
Luca, This is really an OGR question and would be better addressed to the gdal-dev list. The short answer is that there is no easy way to do what you want. The rotation information is kept in the "style string" which is not a normal attribute, and so isn't translated to shapefile format. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent
