AW: Re: [FWTools] import problems shp -> postgres using ogr2ogr

[christian.michels at eifelgeist.com]

just one more question on the ogr2ogr tool: is there any .NET wrapper out there which makes the ogr2ogr functions accessible to .NET programming on windows environment ?

thanx - chris

>
>hi frank,
>
>your workaround does the job !
>I field a bug on that issue on your bugzilla system - thank you very much for 
>the quick support !
>
>cheers
>
>chris
>
>>
>>On 1/4/06, christian.michels at eifelgeist.com
>><christian.michels at eifelgeist.com> wrote:
>>> Since some objects could be imported I think the shp file is may be 
>>corrupted ?! I do not really understand what constraint 
>>"enforce_geotype_wkb_geometry" checks - Would be great if somebody could help 
>
>>me on that !
>>> By the way - I managed to import some line shp files via ogr2ogr and that 
>>worked fine !
>>
>>Christian,
>>
>>I would appreciate it if you could file a bug on this issue.
>>
>>But I think you can workaround the issue by specifying the "-nlt GEOMETRY"
>>option on the ogr2ogr commandline.
>>
>>I believe the problem is that the shapefile is identified as type POLYGON
>>but has some multi-island polygons which translate as MULTIPOLYGON.
>>Ogr2ogr creates the table with the geometry type polygon, but multipolygon
>>is not compatible with that and as of PostGIS 1.0 geometry type is
>>strictly enforced.
>>
>>The fix is for OGR's Shapefile driver to always return the
>>layer type as GEOMETRY for polygon files since we can't
>>know if they are all polygon, all multipolygon or a mix of
>>the two.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>--
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>
>>
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