António, The field name 'desc' is one of the SQL keywords[1]. It needs to be quoted for OGR to process it. So the following command should work. ogr2ogr -f "esri shapefile" -sql "SELECT ele, time AS t, magvar,geoidheigh, name, cmt, 'desc', src FROM GPS_Project" new.shp GPS_Project.shp
[1]: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc28_sqlfunc#CompatabilityImplications 2011/10/28 António Rocha <antonio.ro...@deimos.com.pt> > Hi Ralf > Thanks for the feedback but it did not work. > I tried: > ogr2ogr -f "esri shapefile" -sql "SELECT ele, time AS t, magvar,geoidheigh, > name, cmt, desc, src FROM GPS_Project" new.shp GPS_Project.shp > > And I got: > ERROR 1: SQL Expression Parsing Error: syntax error > > Even I tried: > ogr2ogr -f "esri shapefile" -sql "SELECT ele, magvar,geoidheigh, name, cmt, > desc, src FROM GPS_Project" new.shp GPS_Project.shp > > And I got: > ERROR 1: SQL Expression Parsing Error: syntax error > Any other suggestion? > Thanks > Antonio > > > > Ralf Suhr wrote: > >> ogr2ogr -f "esri shapefile" -sql "SELECT ele, time AS t, magvar, >> geoidheigh, name, cmt, desc, src FROM GPS_Project" new.shp GPS_Project.shp >> >> Gr >> Ralf >> >> On Freitag 28 Oktober 2011 13:54:37 António Rocha wrote: >> >> >>> ogr2ogr -sql "SELECT [ele AS ele, time AS t, magvar AS magvar, geoidheigh >>> AS geoidheigh, name AS name, cmt AS cmt, desc_ AS desc_, src AS src] FROM >>> GPS_Project.shp", new.shp GPS_Project.shp >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 6582 (20111028) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev> > -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E
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