Re: [gdal-dev] geographic vs projected coordinate system

2013-06-10 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
the class known as "equidistant" projections. In this particular case, scale is preserved along the equator /and/ at all points on the map in a direction perpendicular to the equator. (Pretty impressive for something so simple, eh?) Martin Feuchtwanger feu...@shaw.ca 604-254-0361 ht

Re: [gdal-dev] Slow convertion from OSM to PG with -skipfailures

2013-05-28 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
s some other factor i wasn't aware of. I only posted because it seemed to relate to Jukka's issue. I'm not complaining about ogr2ogr -- it came through for me in the end :-) Martin Feuchtwanger feu...@shaw.ca 604-254-0361 http://members.shaw.ca/geomatics.developer skype: marti

Re: [gdal-dev] Slow convertion from OSM to PG with -skipfailures

2013-05-28 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
defaults and made desired changes manually after the fact, in the DB. Maybe there should be some stern warnings in the documentation when "luxury" options are computationally expensive? Then users would be less likely to judge ogr2ogr as a poor performer. Martin Feuchtwanger feu...@sh

Re: [gdal-dev] Issues with FileGDB support

2013-03-15 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
Don't know if this helps but, when i was using (not building) ogr, i had to specially select the filedb facility as an 'extra' during installation (or choose to do it later). Martin Feuchtwanger feu...@shaw.ca 604-254-0361 Vancouver, BC V5N 1J6 http://members.shaw.ca/geomatic

Re: [gdal-dev] Most optimal algorithm for contour correctness?

2013-02-15 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
e them cartographically pleasing, but the degree of "curviness" should depend on the assumed ruggedness of the original terrain (more rugged => less smoothing). Hoping that helps and that others will comment on the specific gdal routines, Martin Feuchtwanger feu

Re: [gdal-dev] [Osgeo4w-trac] random crashes upon using ogrinfo or ogr2ogr with FileGDB

2012-11-07 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
eGDB. I'm very new here -- should i be reporting this elsewhere? Martin Feuchtwanger feu...@shaw.ca 604-254-0361 On 06/11/2012 4:25 PM, Martin Feuchtwanger wrote: Using GDAL-OGR 1.9.2 (2012-10-08) with the FileGDB add-on (not sure of the version, but i got it at the same time i got G

[gdal-dev] random crashes upon using ogrinfo or ogr2ogr with FileGDB

2012-11-06 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
Using GDAL-OGR 1.9.2 (2012-10-08) with the FileGDB add-on (not sure of the version, but i got it at the same time i got GDAL), there's a random crash bug upon using ogrinfo or ogr2ogr. I've tried the following on several different GDB files and there's almost always a Windows error message: og

[gdal-dev] problem converting a FileGDB to PostGIS using ogr2ogr

2012-11-01 Thread Martin Feuchtwanger
les (x86)\OpenGeo\OpenGeo Suite\** ** pgsql\9.1\bin\psql.exe419,328 31/05/2012** *and *c:\OSGeo4W\bin\psql.exe299,00811/03/2010** *Would that be an issue? Any help would be very much appreciated -- even if only a pointer to a better place to ask the question. --