If you got Qgis from www.kyngchaos.com you already have ogr2ogr in your system thru gdal http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks You only need to set your path or run /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/Current/Programs/ogr2ogr ________________________________ Agustin
On 18/05/2012, at 20:23, Chris Henrick <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the pointer David, I appreciate it. > > I'm using QGIS 1.7.4 on Mac OSX 10.6.8, so I can run ogr2ogr in linux. I'm > not too familiar with running code in terminal, but a friend recomended > installing home brew and xcode first. Do you know of any helpful tutorials to > help a newby get started with running open source command line code? > > regards, > > -Chris > > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, David J. Bakeman <[email protected]> > wrote: > Chris Henrick wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> Does anyone have a python script or know of a 3rd party plug in that will >> allow a directory of shapefiles to be reprojected into a specified CRS? >> Would also be helpful to do the same with the clip tool > You didn't say what OS so your mileage may vary. For this kind of operation > I would use the ogr2ogr application from the gdal utilities. I believe if > you're using the windows osgeo install that it is installed if you're using > linux it's a matter of installing gdal which if you have qgis it's probably > already there. > > So to reproject a bunch of shapefiles the source files in d0 and the > destination in d1: > > ogr2ogr -t_srs (specify the target CRS you can use proj4 string or an > existing .prj file) d1 d0 > > The default type for ogr2ogr is shapefile so you don't need to specify a type > even. ogr2ogr also does other operations including clipping. >> >> I'm a fairly novice programmer so any advice would be appreciated. >> >> thanks, >> >> -Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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