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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python
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Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

by Silas Toms, Paul Crickard, Eric van Rees
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
440 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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OGR batch commands

OGR offers a series of batch commands that can be used to describe and convert existing geospatial vector data. We've already mentioned two of them, ogrinfo and ogr2ogr, in Chapter 4, Data Types, Storage, and Conversion:

  • ogrinfo can be used for doing all sorts of reporting on vector data, such as listing supported vector formats, available layers, and summary details, and can be combined with SQL-query syntax to select features from a dataset.
  • ogr2ogr is for doing vector data translations, such as converting vector files between different formats, converting multiple layers into a new data source, and reproject vector data and filter features based on location. It can also be used with SQL-query syntax just like ogrinfo ...
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