Re: [gdal-dev] GSoC 2016

2016-05-01 Thread Avyav Kumar
Hi all, I am Avyav Kumar, a third year student at BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus, India. I am working to build a Triangulated Surface, Polyhedral Surface and Triangle API for OGRGeometry [http://www.gdal.org/classOGRGeometry.html] as part of my GSoC 2016 proposal. If anyone has suggestions

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread Rahkonen Jukka (MML)
Andrea Borruso wrote: >thank you very much. I had read that page, but stupidly I did not think >that "ALTER TABLE tablename ADD [COLUMN] columnname columntype" meant >strictly that I could only use it in this way. >My wrong intepretion was that I could use "alter table add" SQL command >and its

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread andy
Hi Even, On 1 May 2016 at 22:28, Even Rouault wrote: > Because it is not implemented... OGR SQL has many implementation > limitations. > What is supported is documented here : http://gdal.org/ogr_sql.html > thank you very much. I had read that page, but stupidly I

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread Even Rouault
Le dimanche 01 mai 2016 19:11:36, aborruso a écrit : > Hi Jeff, > thank you from Italy! > > > jmckenna wrote > > > When I responded earlier I was testing and you cannot do this in one > > single ogrinfo command (so that answers your initial question). What > > would be great, if you could add

Re: [gdal-dev] compile error on windows

2016-05-01 Thread Joaquim Luis
If you want to protect your hair don't try to build HDF5.8.12 (and probably some other versions around this one) it will crash a couple times under VS14 and will error at the middle of build with a timezone variable not found (or similar) 5.10.0 builds fine but the HDF page has worry message

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread aborruso
Hi Jeff, thank you from Italy! jmckenna wrote > > When I responded earlier I was testing and you cannot do this in one > single ogrinfo command (so that answers your initial question). What > would be great, if you could add your working example to the docs: here > is an existing wiki page

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2016-05-01 10:30 AM, aborruso wrote: jmckenna wrote I think you have to use 2 ogrinfo statements. I know it, it works with 2 statements. Do you know why I cannot use my kind of SQL command with all in one statement? And what do you think about to add some note in the documentation, about

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread Christine Waigl
I see. Thanks for the correction. On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 6:58 AM, aborruso wrote: > Hi Christine, > thank you. > > > Christine Waigl wrote > > > > As far as I'm aware -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- > > ogrinfo only lists information about a file and doesn't > > alter

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread aborruso
aborruso wrote > As I written in my message I'm able to use ogrinfo to alterate my source > file, but if I want to add 3 fields I must write 3 ogrinfo statements; I > would like to know why a single statemente with a correct SQL command. ops, I'm sorry ... why I cannot use a single ogrinfo

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread aborruso
Hi Christine, thank you. Christine Waigl wrote > > As far as I'm aware -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- > ogrinfo only lists information about a file and doesn't > alter it. As I written in my message I'm able to use ogrinfo to alterate my source file, but if I want to add 3 fields I must

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread Christine Waigl
On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 5:30 AM, aborruso wrote: > > > jmckenna wrote > > I think you have to use 2 ogrinfo statements. As far as I'm aware -- please correct me if I'm wrong -- ogrinfo only lists information about a file and doesn't alter it. "ogrinfo -sql" may well be

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread aborruso
Hi Jeff, thank you. jmckenna wrote > I think you have to use 2 ogrinfo statements. I know it, it works with 2 statements. Do you know why I cannot use my kind of SQL command with all in one statement? And what do you think about to add some note in the documentation, about the origin of the

Re: [gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread Jeff McKenna
On 2016-05-01 5:20 AM, aborruso wrote: Hi, I have no problem to add a column to a shapefile with: ogrinfo myfile.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE myfile ADD fieldX integer" But if I use, the second column is not added to the file. ogrinfo myfile.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE myfile ADD fieldX integer(3), fieldY

[gdal-dev] How to add more than one column to a shapefile using ogrinfo

2016-05-01 Thread aborruso
Hi, I have no problem to add a column to a shapefile with: ogrinfo myfile.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE myfile ADD fieldX integer" But if I use, the second column is not added to the file. ogrinfo myfile.shp -sql "ALTER TABLE myfile ADD fieldX integer(3), fieldY integer(3)" The shell gives me only