Message-ID: <e12429640803311107w1df052a6pa1613786bf2ce2b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-31T18:07:32Z
From: G. Allegri
Subject: ogr2ogr for converting postGIS layer to shapefile
In-Reply-To: <47F11791.1040701@utoronto.ca>
Hi Murray.
About the first question. As far as I understand, you're working in R
on a *imported* PostGIS layer (I suppose you use rgdal to do it,
right?). Then you would need to export it to a shapefile (easily done
with writeOGR). Why are you considering the use of ogr2ogr? As you
probably know, it's a binary callable from a command line, and it's
not possible (AFAIK) to do it from R...
I dont' understand your second question...
> Or even better could ogr be used to do this directly on a postGIS layer?
What do you mean?
Giovanni