Derek, > This may be a simple question for most of you but I thought I would > ask it anyhow as I am at an impasse. I have a Counties shape file. I > am attempting to convert it to raster utilizing gdal_rasterize, and > this does work. However, I am attempting to carry into the output > file the county name preferably e.g. Orange County, or at least a > county identify of some kind. I have utilized a command similar to > the following: > > gdal_rasterize -a COUNTY -l -sql "select COUNTY, * from Counties" > Counties Counties.shp CountiesRaster.tif
I think that -l should specify the layer name from the source dataset not the field. Typically in a shapefile there is only one layer and it is the same as the shapefile name. Try dropping the -l stuff all together. gdal_rasterize -a COUNTY Counties.shp CountiesRaster.tif or if you use it, use it like this: gdal_rasterize -a COUNTY -l Counties Counties.shp CountiesRaster.tif > > However, when I open the resulting raster file in ArcGIS and click on > one of the pixel to identify it I don’t see the county name. Is the > county name there and I am just not seeing it in ArcGIS indentify. I > realize there are probably more GDAL intensive ways to check for the > data, but I am still learning. I was hoping to someone could explain > to me what I am doing incorrectly. You can get information from a raster in GDAL with gdallocationinfo. HTH, Eli > > Thanks, > Derek > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev