You were too quick to dismiss it. There is also an exportToWkt in OGR: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/classOGRGeometry.html
On Mar 21, 5:35 pm, Manuele Pesenti <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 21/03/2012 19:39, DenesL ha scritto:> If you are referring to an ESRI > shapefile then this might help: > > >http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/15920/how-to-convert-shapefile... > > Hi, > > thanks for the very usefull link... but the object seams not to answer > the quest. For inserting geometries in database using new DAL features > you need WKT format and not WKB... every library I found support > exporting WKB (osgeo.ogr, Shapely, ppygis) but none seams to export WKT > format. On the other hand a good point of your approach is that > OpenLayers support WKT if you need to insert geometries by drawing them > on a map. > > cheers > > M.
