Re: [gdal-dev] How to concatenate with newlines by using OGR SQL?

2012-07-31 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Hi, Great, it does work. I was reading an entertaining page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/245395/hidden-features-of-windows-batch-files and because of http://stackoverflow.com/a/254169 I was just experimenting with ^ I wonder if OGR SQL could have one more special field for newline for makin

Re: [gdal-dev] How to concatenate with newlines by using OGR SQL?

2012-07-31 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Jukka, This should work: ogr2ogr -f gpx test.gpx finland.osm.pbf -sql ^ *More? *"select name,CONCAT(addr_street,'^ *More? * *More? *',addr_housenumber) as 'desc' from points where amenity='toilets'" Note that the "More? " part is given by DOS. By giving ^ at the end of line you are saying that t

Re: [gdal-dev] How to concatenate with newlines by using OGR SQL?

2012-07-31 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Hi, Sorry, I forgot to tell that I am on Windows. “$’\n’” looks so gurutic that I feel jealous. I hope I will never need to teach anybody to use it at work, though ☺ -Jukka- Chaitanya kumar wrote: Jukka, You can try to pass the newline character directly from the command line. With bash, y

Re: [gdal-dev] How to concatenate with newlines by using OGR SQL?

2012-07-31 Thread Chaitanya kumar CH
Jukka, You can try to pass the newline character directly from the command line. With bash, you can use $'\n'. In your case it will be like this: ogr2ogr -f gpx test.gpx finland.osm.pbf -sql "select name,CONCAT(addr_street,"$'\n'",addr_housenumber) as 'desc' from points where amenity='toilets'"

[gdal-dev] How to concatenate with newlines by using OGR SQL?

2012-07-30 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Hi, I was playing with the new OSM driver and tried to transfer some POI features into my GPS. It goes well by using GPX format in between. However, I have a little problem. My GPS supports multiline descriptions but I do not know how to insert newlines into the output of ogr2ogr. The following