[FWTools] ogr2ogr: formating columns

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11/1/05, "Möckel, Alexander" <Alexander.Moeckel at ibykus.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm using ogr2ogr to convert data to ESRI-Shapefile. An additional DBF File is also created. In the input gml File I have a token IDENT with such values: 91-2005-16.061.085.2650.2 and a token DAT with such values: 01.11.2005. After converting in the DBF File these token are both columns of type number, and the values are 91.0 and 1.11. Is there any possibility, to tell ogr2ogr that the first token should be a string and the second a date column?

Alex,

After translating the GML file you should see that OGR has written
a .gfs file associated with the .gml file.  If you manually edit this
you should be able to find the field names, and their associated types.
Try changing the contents of the <Type> tag from Real or Integer
to String.   Then re-run the translation after deleting the old output.

Unfortunately the OGR data model does not include date fields, so
there is no way to make OGR produce .dbfs with proper dates.

Best regards,
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