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
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
