Re: [gdal-dev] shapefile enhancements

2014-04-29 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Jan Heckman gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi,It appears I have to do some homework on ogr's shapefile functions as it stands now. > > 8GB: If interoperability is more of a priority than capacity, that's a valid consideration. I've not really needed anything > 4GB so far. > > Delete: > By delete I

Re: [gdal-dev] shapefile enhancements

2014-04-29 Thread Sandro Mani
Hello Jan, On a related note: for the Fedora package which I maintain, I've also added a number of out of tree patches: mainly backporting the improvements from the version bundled in gdal as well as replacing the buildsystem with an autotools one, to allow easy mingw cross-compilation. My pa

[gdal-dev] MapInfo File vs ESRI Shapefile attribute value encoding

2014-04-29 Thread Max Demars
Hi, I am a bit confused right now about a possible difference in encoding attribute value that I have noticed between those two drivers (MapInfo File vs ESRI Shapefile). I have a script that allow user to export some features from database to shapefile or MapInfo TAB format. However, in MapInfo T

Re: [gdal-dev] shapefile enhancements

2014-04-29 Thread Jan Heckman
Hi, It appears I have to do some homework on ogr's shapefile functions as it stands now. 8GB: If interoperability is more of a priority than capacity, that's a valid consideration. I've not really needed anything > 4GB so far. Delete: By delete I mean leaving the information in the file but (shap

Re: [gdal-dev] gdal_contour failes after creating 4gig+ file

2014-04-29 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Timothy, I just ran gdal_contour (from gdal-1.10.1) on http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM1/Region_01/N38W114.hgt.zip with the options -i 10 and -a height. I got a shape file of ~95MB. Please check your data file and gdal version. BTW, you can directly save the contours into a postgis tab