NAME
v.out.ogr - Convert to OGR format.
SYNOPSIS
v.out.ogr
v.out.ogr help
v.out.ogr [-c] input=string [type=string[,string,...]] dsn=string layer=string [field=integer] [format=string] [dsco=string] [lco=string]
Flags:
- -c
- Export features with category (labeled) only. Otherwise all features are exported
Parameters:
- input=string
- Name of input vector
- type=string
- Feature type. Possible combinations of more types: point,centroid or line,boundary.
- Options: point,line,boundary,centroid,area
- Default: line,boundary
- dsn=string
- OGR datasource name.
ESRI Shapefile: directory containing shapefiles
MapInfo File: directory containing mapinfo files
- layer=string
- OGR layer name.
ESRI Shapefile: shapefile name
MapInfo File: mapinfo file name
- field=integer
- Field value
- Default: 1
- format=string
- OGR format.
- Options: ESRI_Shapefile,TIGER,S57,MapInfo_File,DGN,Memory,GML,ODBC,PostgreSQL
- Default: ESRI_Shapefile
- dsco=string
- OGR dataset creation option (format specific, NAME=VALUE)
- Default:
- lco=string
- OGR layer creation option (format specific, NAME=VALUE)
- Default:
DESCRIPTION
v.out.ogr converts GRASS vector data to
OGR format.
OGR (Simple Features Library) is part of the
GDAL library, so you need to
install gdal to use v.out.ogr.
Supported OGR Vector Formats
ESRI
Shapefile
Mapinfo
File
TIGER
GML
For further available drivers go
here
EXAMPLE
Export lines of GRASS 5.7 vector map to SHAPE format (generates /tmp/testogr.shp #and related files):
v.out.ogr input=multi typ=line
dsn=/tmp layer=testogr
Export areas of GRASS 5.7 vector map to SHAPE format (generates /tmp/testogr.shp #and related files):
v.out.ogr input=multi typ=area,centroid
dsn=/tmp layer=testogr
Export lines to GML format (generates /tmp/testogr.gml file with layer 'testogr'):
v.out.ogr input=multi type=line
dsn=/tmp/testogr.gml layer=testogr
format=GML
Export areas directly to PostGIS:
v.out.ogr input=polygons type=area
dsn="PG:dbname=postgis" layer=polymap
format=PostgreSQL
REFERENCES
OGR vector library
OGR vector library C API
documentation
SEE ALSO
GRASS 5.7 Tutorial pages
v.format,
v.in.ogr
AUTHOR
Radim Blazek, ITC-Irst, Trento, Italy
Last changed: $Date: 2004/04/14 19:19:40 $
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