The Surface tag is not supported before GDAL/OGR v1.8 I had a similar GML a few weeks back. Using the beta release of GDAL/OGR v1.8 you can convert.
-- Paul *Paul Meems * Release manager, configuration manager and forum moderator of MapWindow GIS. www.mapwindow.org Owner of MapWindow.nl - Support for Dutch speaking users. www.mapwindow.nl * * My profiles: [image: LinkedIn] <http://nl.linkedin.com/in/paulmeems/> [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/mapwindow_nl> 2010/11/29 Darren Cope <darrenc...@gmail.com> > > Hi all, > > Hopefully this is also the forum to post OGR-related enquiries. I don't > see > a specific OGR list. > > I have a very large .gml file with multiple layers in it. I would like to > export one of these layers to .shp. It is a polygon layer (of lakes). > However, I am getting the error: > > ERROR 1: Unrecognised geometry type <Surface>. > > The ogr command I was using: > > ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" output.shp input.gml layername > > Any thoughts? Is it possible the polygon layer is somehow incorrectly > defined as a surface in the GML? Any way I can force it to be a polygon? Or > is it something else entirely? I don't often work with .gml, so may be > missing something obvious... > > Cheers, > > Darren > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/GML-to-shp-Using-OGR-tp5784681p5784681.html > Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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