Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of UserDocs/OgrInfo

Timestamp:

May 25, 2007, 2:19:35 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

maphew

Comment:

tip about including layer when querying shapefiles

UserDocs/OgrInfo

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+= The `ogrinfo` utility =
+  ''The official documentation for the `ogrinfo` utility is http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogrinfo.html''
+
+== -so Summary Only ==
+  ''supress listing of features, show only the summary information like projection, schema, feature count and extents.''
+
+To get this info with shapefiles you must also provide the ``layer`` name, else not much useful is returned, `ogrinfo -so contours.shp`:
+{{{
+INFO: Open of `contours.shp'
+  using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
+1: contours (Line String)
+}}}
+
+Likely what is really wanted is `ogrinfo -so contours.shp` '''`contours`'''
+
+{{{
+INFO: Open of `contours.shp'
+      using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
+
+Layer name: contours
+Geometry: Line String
+Feature Count: 3393
+Extent: (57537.995662, 663561.802226) - (88297.082026, 694443.881449)
+Layer SRS WKT:
+PROJCS["Albers",
+...etc.
+}}}