Hi, The help can be arcane, but it is there. Given the wide array of formats, each with its own idiosyncrasies, I don't ever see using ogr2ogr being simple & straightforward.
However, for your problem: ogr2ogr --help Usage: ogr2ogr [--help-general] [-skipfailures] [-append] [-update] [-gt n] [-select field_list] [-where restricted_where] [-sql <sql statement>] [-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-preserve_fid] [-fid FID] [-a_srs srs_def] [-t_srs srs_def] [-s_srs srs_def] [-f format_name] [-overwrite] [[-dsco NAME=VALUE] ...] dst_datasource_name src_datasource_name [-lco NAME=VALUE] [-nln name] [-nlt type] [layer [layer ...]] It says the destination name is given before the source name, whereas your command has these reversed. So instead of ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32610 myfile.shp mynewfile.shp try ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32610 mynewfile.shp myfile.shp HTH, Brent Wood Brent Wood DBA/GIS consultant NIWA, Wellington New Zealand >>> <mtnbiketr...@zzz.com> 01/26/09 1:39 PM >>> Hi, beginner user. First off, am disappointed with help files for syntax for ogr2ogr. I have a shp file( with .shx, and .dbf) and want to convert it to a different projection. When I run ogr2ogr from command line, it doesn't do anything, I tried to set the debug level for more verbose and there is not enough information to get debug to work. I assume debug is like verbose. I tried --debug [on], --debug 1. Just get back usage description. Here is the command I'm using: ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:32610 myfile.shp mynewfile.shp it just returns the usage description help file. No errors, no way of knowing what is wrong. I looked online at gdal.org and it is almost worthless for help. p.s. I also have "Desktop GIS" by Gary Sherman and not all the book examples work(pg 188).thanks, Tom _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd. _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user