Heh, good point! There are so many options some times . . . On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Barry Rowlingson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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