[gdal-dev] Convert kml to Shapefile and conserve polygon's colors with Ogr2Ogr

2012-10-22 Thread Wael Tarhouni
Hi All, I'm using Ogr2Ogr to convert kml file to shapefile but the color of the shape output file is unique, i 'm always loosing the colors of my polygons in the shapefile... is there any way to solve this problem ? Best regards; -- Wael Tarhouni Élève ingénieur en Réseaux informatiques et

Re: [gdal-dev] Convert kml to Shapefile and conserve polygon's colors with Ogr2Ogr

2012-10-22 Thread xavier lhomme
Hi There is no graphical representation in the shapefile. ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev

Re: [gdal-dev] Convert kml to Shapefile and conserve polygon's colors with Ogr2Ogr

2012-10-22 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Wael, There is no support for style information in shapefile format. However, you can store the style info as a regular attribute value. Using OGR's SQL you can extract the style string from the kml data and then store it in the shapefile. Please go through the OGR SQL page[1]. You can get the

Re: [gdal-dev] Convert kml to Shapefile and conserve polygon's colors with Ogr2Ogr

2012-10-22 Thread Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH
Wael, First, make sure you are using the libkml driver and not the kml driver. The libkml driver can read the style information. Then you can get that information in your shapefile by specifically requesting the ogr_style column. Try adding -sql 'select *, ogr_style as style from Layer0' Mike