/*! \page ogr_utilities
OGR Utility Programs
The following utilities are distributed as part of the OGR Simple Features
toolkit.
ogrinfo
The ogrinfo program lists various information about an OGR supported data
source to stdout (the terminal).
\verbatim
Usage: ogrinfo [-ro] [-q] [-where restricted_where]
[-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-fid fid]
[-sql statement] [-al] [-so] [--formats]
datasource_name [layer [layer ...]]
\endverbatim
- -ro: Open the data source in read-only mode.
- -al: List all features of all layers (used instead of having to
give layer names as arguments).
- -so: Summary Only: supress listing of features, show only the
summary information like projection, schema, feature count and extents.
- -q: Quiet verbose reporting of various information, including
coordinate system, layer schema, extents, and feature count.
- -where restricted_where: An attribute query in a restricted
form of the queries used in the SQL WHERE statement. Only features matching
the attribute query will be reported.
- -sql statement: Execute the indicated statement
and return the result.
- -spat xmin ymin xmax ymax: The area of interest. Only
features within the rectangle will be reported.
- -fid fid: If provided, only the feature with this feature
id will be reported. Operates exclusive of the spatial or attribute
queries.
- --formats: List the format drivers that are enabled.
- datasource_name: The data source to open. May be a filename,
directory or other virtual name. See the OGR Vector
Formats list for supported datasources.
- layer: One or more layer names may be reported.
If no layer names are passed then ogrinfo will report a list of available
layers (and their layerwide geometry type). If layer name(s) are given then
their extents, coordinate system, feature count, geometry type, schema and
all features matching query parameters will be reported to the terminal.
If no query parameters are provided, all features are reported.
Geometries are reported in OGC WKT format.
Example reporting all layers in an NTF file:
\verbatim
% ogrinfo wrk/SHETLAND_ISLANDS.NTF
INFO: Open of `wrk/SHETLAND_ISLANDS.NTF'
using driver `UK .NTF' successful.
1: BL2000_LINK (Line String)
2: BL2000_POLY (None)
3: BL2000_COLLECTIONS (None)
4: FEATURE_CLASSES (None)
\endverbatim
Example using an attribute query is used to restrict the output of the
features in a layer:
\verbatim
% ogrinfo -ro -where 'GLOBAL_LINK_ID=185878' wrk/SHETLAND_ISLANDS.NTF BL2000_LINK
INFO: Open of `wrk/SHETLAND_ISLANDS.NTF'
using driver `UK .NTF' successful.
Layer name: BL2000_LINK
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 1
Extent: (419794.100000, 1069031.000000) - (419927.900000, 1069153.500000)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS["OSGB 1936 / British National Grid",
GEOGCS["OSGB 1936",
DATUM["OSGB_1936",
SPHEROID["Airy 1830",6377563.396,299.3249646]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",49],
PARAMETER["central_meridian",-2],
PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.999601272],
PARAMETER["false_easting",400000],
PARAMETER["false_northing",-100000],
UNIT["metre",1]]
LINE_ID: Integer (6.0)
GEOM_ID: Integer (6.0)
FEAT_CODE: String (4.0)
GLOBAL_LINK_ID: Integer (10.0)
TILE_REF: String (10.0)
OGRFeature(BL2000_LINK):2
LINE_ID (Integer) = 2
GEOM_ID (Integer) = 2
FEAT_CODE (String) = (null)
GLOBAL_LINK_ID (Integer) = 185878
TILE_REF (String) = SHETLAND I
LINESTRING (419832.100 1069046.300,419820.100 1069043.800,419808.300 1069048.8
00,419805.100 1069046.000,419805.000 1069040.600,419809.400 1069037.400,419827.4
00 1069035.600,419842 1069031,419859.000 1069032.800,419879.500 1069049.500,4198
86.700 1069061.400,419890.100 1069070.500,419890.900 1069081.800,419896.500 1069
086.800,419898.400 1069092.900,419896.700 1069094.800,419892.500 1069094.300,419
878.100 1069085.600,419875.400 1069087.300,419875.100 1069091.100,419872.200 106
9094.600,419890.400 1069106.400,419907.600 1069112.800,419924.600 1069133.800,41
9927.900 1069146.300,419927.600 1069152.400,419922.600 1069153.500,419917.100 10
69153.500,419911.500 1069153.000,419908.700 1069152.500,419903.400 1069150.800,4
19898.800 1069149.400,419894.800 1069149.300,419890.700 1069149.400,419890.600 1
069149.400,419880.800 1069149.800,419876.900 1069148.900,419873.100 1069147.500,
419870.200 1069146.400,419862.100 1069143.000,419860 1069142,419854.900 1069138.
600,419850 1069135,419848.800 1069134.100,419843 1069130,419836.200 1069127.600,
419824.600 1069123.800,419820.200 1069126.900,419815.500 1069126.900,419808.200
1069116.500,419798.700 1069117.600,419794.100 1069115.100,419796.300 1069109.100
,419801.800 1069106.800,419805.000 1069107.300)
\endverbatim
ogr2ogr
This program can be used to convert simple features data between file formats
performing various operations during the process such as spatial or attribute
selections, reducing the set of attributes, setting the output coordinate
system or even reprojecting the features during translation.
\verbatim
Usage: ogr2ogr [-skipfailures] [-append] [-update] [-f format_name]
[-select field_list] [-where restricted_where]
[-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax]
[-a_srs srs_def] [-t_srs srs_def] [-s_srs srs_def]
[[-dsco NAME=VALUE] ...] dst_datasource_name
src_datasource_name
[-lco NAME=VALUE] [-nln name] layer [layer ...]]
-f format_name: output file format name, possible values are:
-f "ESRI Shapefile"
-f "TIGER"
-f "MapInfo File"
-f "GML"
-f "PostgreSQL"
-append: Append to existing layer instead of creating new
-update: Open existing output datasource in update mode
-select field_list: Comma-delimited list of fields from input layer to
copy to the new layer (defaults to all)
-where restricted_where: Attribute query (like SQL WHERE)
-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax: spatial query extents
-dsco NAME=VALUE: Dataset creation option (format specific)
-lco NAME=VALUE: Layer creation option (format specific)
-nln name: Assign an alternate name to the new layer
-a_srs srs_def: Assign an output SRS
-t_srs srs_def: Reproject/transform to this SRS on output
-s_srs srs_def: Override source SRS
Srs_def can be a full WKT definition (hard to escape properly),
or a well known definition (ie. EPSG:4326) or a file with a WKT
definition.
\endverbatim
ogrtindex
The ogrtindex program can be used to create a tileindex - a file containing
a list of the identities of a bunch of other files along with there spatial
extents. This is primarily intended to be used with the
UMN MapServer for tiled access
to layers using the OGR connection type.
\verbatim
Usage: ogrtindex [-lnum n]... [-lname name]... [-f output_format]
output_dataset src_dataset...
-lnum n: Add layer number 'n' from each source file
in the tile index.
-lname name: Add the layer named 'name' from each source file
in the tile index.
-f output_format: Select an output format name. The default
is to create a shapefile.
-tileindex field_name: The name to use for the dataset name.
Defaults to LOCATION.
\endverbatim
If no -lnum or -lname arguments are given it is assumed that
all layers in source datasets should be added to the tile index
as independent records.
If the tile index already exists it will be appended to, otherwise it will
be created.
It is a flaw of the current ogrtindex program that no attempt is made to
copy the coordinate system definition from the source datasets to the tile
index (as is expected by MapServer when PROJECTION AUTO is in use).
This example would create a shapefile (tindex.shp) containing a tile index
of the BL2000_LINK layers in all the NTF files in the wrk directory:
\verbatim
% ogrtindex tindex.shp wrk/*.NTF
\endverbatim
*/