Re: [gdal-dev] grouping shapefiles

2010-10-19 Thread Jayesh Chaudhary
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Dan Putler wrote: > Hi Jayesh, > > I think the short answer is "no". A shapefile can only deal with one > geometry layer at a time by construction. Thanks, I know this. > To handle multiple layers in the same file, folks have gone to geospatial > databases, wh

Re: [gdal-dev] grouping shapefiles

2010-10-19 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Jayesh, I think the short answer is "no". A shapefile can only deal with one geometry layer at a time by construction. To handle multiple layers in the same file, folks have gone to geospatial databases, where each table is a separate layer if the table has a geometry column. An "open" form

[gdal-dev] grouping shapefiles

2010-10-19 Thread Jayesh Chaudhary
I know I can merge shapefiles using ogr2ogr but is there a way to group them? So that each layer can be separate and we just send users a single file (other then zip)? I don't know any but wondering if someone. Thanks, ___ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev