Awesome thanks very much. glad I asked, you learn something new every day. On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 3:19 PM David Strip <[email protected]> wrote:
> Starting with v2.1, ogr2ogr supports args X_POSSIBLE_NAMES, > Y_POSSIBLE_NAMES which are strings with allowed wildcards (eg, Lon* ), or > you can use field_1, field_2, etc to explicitly give the position of > lat/lon. > It's explained on the driver page. > <https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/csv.html> This StackExchange > <https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/276607/4449>post shows csv to shapefile > conversion and included Windows command line syntax for looping over files > in a directory. > > On 11/15/2022 12:58 PM, Hugh Kelley wrote: > > David, this was my first thought when i saw this question as well. > > however, I didn't look for very long but I haven't seen a way to tell > ogr2ogr to read columns in a csv as the lat/lon and write those as points > to the shapefile. I generally write a csv to postgres as a non-spatial > table and then process the lat lon columns with postgis. > > Are there arguments for ogr2ogr that can do this? > > > -- Hugh Kelley
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