[FWTools] Problems with GML to Shapefile

[Frank Warmerdam]

Paul Wittle wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I'm having trouble running the following code from a batch file and I 
> can't work out what is wrong.
>  
> C:\FWTools2.2.8\bin\ogr2ogr.exe -f "ESRI Shapefile" 
> "C:\Import\shape\1_CS.shp" "C:\Import\gml\1.gml" CS -a_srs EPSG:4277 -update
>  
> [my install dir for FWTools] -f [convert to] [output shapefile name] 
> [input gml layer] [layer in gml] [OSGB projection] [update file if it 
> exists]
>  
> As far as I can tell it worked on one computer and not on another, am I 
> missing something fundamental in terms of the declaration?

Paul,

What error do you get?

Are you running the command from within the FWTools shell?  There are
several environment variables needed for correct operation of ogr2ogr,
and they are normally defined in the FWTools shell environment, but not
outside it.  In particular, EPSG:4277 won't be correctly expanded unless
the GDAL_DATA environment variable is set.

Best regards,
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