Works for me (tested with 1.7.2, but there's no reason 1.7.1 doesn't work). Check that <OGRVRTDataSource> is on the first line of the test.vrt file without any extra character (space, newline, etc...) before.
Le mardi 26 octobre 2010 18:19:44, John Cartwright a écrit : > Hello All, > > I was looking at the OGR VRT example on > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html, and it doesn't seem to work - > complains that unrecognized driver. Am I missing something? > > Following example on http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html, > > 1) created a text file (test.csv) with the following: > > Latitude,Longitude,Name > 48.1,0.25,"First point" > 49.2,1.1,"Second point" > 47.5,0.75,"Third point" > > 2) created a text file (test.vrt) with the following: > > <OGRVRTDataSource> > <OGRVRTLayer name="test"> > <SrcDataSource>test.csv</SrcDataSource> > <GeometryType>wkbPoint</GeometryType> > <LayerSRS>WGS84</LayerSRS> > <GeometryField encoding="PointFromColumns" x="Longitude" > y="Latitude"/> </OGRVRTLayer> > </OGRVRTDataSource> > > 3) tried "ogrinfo -ro -al test.vrt" and got: > > FAILURE: > Unable to open datasource `test.vrt' with the following drivers. > > > This is GDAL 1.7.1 on linux. My ultimate objective is that take a CSV > file whose first two fields are x,y and convert to a shapefile with the > remaining fields as attributes. > > Thanks! > > --john > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
