On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Michael Sumner <[email protected]> wrote: > This can work with a combination of vsizip (or other) and vsicurl, but the > multiple files will have to be in an archive (zip or other). > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs/ReadInZip > > See examples near the bottom of the page for OGR. Keep the zip file name > the same as the shapefile/layer name and don't have subdirectories for the > simplest case. > > I am pretty sure this cannot work otherwise for a multifile format.
Neat, but I suspect in practice the underlying code is just downloading the zip and extracting to a temp file, which is about four lines of R code. If the shapefile components aren't zipped up, its just as easy. I'd write a wrapper to do that. Barry _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
