[FWTools] Using FW Tools with Windows XP

[John Tilley]

Frank - I must be missing something - but after several hours I am 
getting nowhere fast. Thanks for confirming that most users run on 
Windows.

What I actually want to do is to run OGRINFO and then OGR2OGR against 
VMAP0 - if I can do this through the FW_TOOLS shell thats fine. I don't 
want to use OPENEV.

I can use OGRINFO against a SHP file and also open the SHP file in 
OPENEV - that of course doesn't use the OGDI vector driver support.

If I type in "ogrinfo gltp:\vrf\E:\vmap0\v0eur\vmaplv0\eurnasia" - then 
I get "unable to open datasource with following drivers" - one of the 
drivers listed is OGDI which is the one I want to use.

If I type in "openev gltp:\vrf\E:\vmap0\v0eur\vmaplv0\eurnasia" then it 
gets more interesting as I get 9 lines of "loading tools" then I get 
"ERROR 4: - 'gltp:\vrf\E:\vmap0\v0eur\vmaplv0\eurnasia' does not exist 
in the file system, and is not recongised as a supported dataset name"

Any suggestions - does FW Tools support the NTFS file-system on Windows? 
- do I have to do something else after opening the FWTools Shell before 
trying an OGRINFO command?

I know that Markus Neteler managed to use OGR2OGR on Linux to convert 
VMAP0 to SHP and set up a website using this data - but the file-names 
were a problem.

Any help much appreciated - Thx - John

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:42:30 +0000, John Tilley 
><john at tilley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I would appreciate any hints on how to use FW Tools with Windows - I
>> just can't open the dataset when its VMAP0. I have tried to follow
>> Frank's hint in reply to my earlier email that the file format is:
>>
>> gltp:\vrf\E:\vmap0\v0eur\vmaplv0\eurnasia
>>
>> if the VMAP0 data is at E:\vmap0\v0eur\vmaplv0\eurnasia
>
>John,
>
>FWTools downloads run about 3:1 in favor of windows.
>So most FWTools users are on windows.
>
>The tricky part about using the gltp urls in OpenEV is
>that you can't enter non-filenames in the GUI.  You need
>to launch from the commandline with the gltp url.
>
>eg.
>1) open fwtools shell
>2) type "openev gltp:\vrf\E:\vmap0\v0eur\vmaplv0\eurnasia"
>
>Good luck,

-- 
John Tilley