If your data was in CSV format, you could script PostgreSQL's COPY command to import the file to a table instead of
using ogr2ogr.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-copy.html
But to avoid human intervention to create the CSV in the first place, a purchased solution might be to create an FME
script to read directly from Excel and write to PostGIS.
http://www.safe.com/products/desktop/formats/microsoft-excel/index.php
Kevin
On 2/15/2010 1:03 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
Every day I receive an Excel file containing lat long coordinates. I
need to import it to postgis.
Currently, I save the Excel file in CSV format and I use ogr2ogr to
import the contents into postgis. I would like to avoid human intervention.
I tried unsuccessfully to define an ODBC link on the Excel file and use
ogr2ogr with odbc to import it to postgres/postgis.
I got this error
[Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] External table is not in the expected format
Here is the command I sent
ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=xxx user=xxx password=xxx dbname=geo"
"ODBC:odbc_urg,test" -nln "testODBCxls" -overwrite
where test is the sheet name inside the excel file
Anyone has a better idea on how to programmatically import excel data
into postgis?
thanks
Steve
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