Re: [gdal-dev] laundering of field's names in GDAL

2016-11-27 Thread jratike80
I believe that the answer in gis.stackexchange http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/219177/can-colon-character-be-used-in-shapefile-field-names is correct. The dBase III format that is used in shapefiles for storing attributes does not accept colon in field names, and GDAL does not want to write

[gdal-dev] laundering of field's names in GDAL

2016-11-27 Thread Djordje Spasic
I have been puzzled with something for the last couple of days: I am converting an .osm file to .shp files with ogr2ogr.exe. This specific line in osmconf.ini file: # comment to avoid laundering of keys ( ':' turned into '_' ) attribute_name_laundering=yes determines whether colons in names of t