Chapter 3. Moving Spatial Data from One Format to Another
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Converting a Shapefile to a PostGIS table using ogr2ogr
- Batch importing a folder of Shapefiles into PostGIS using ogr2ogr
- Batch exporting a list of tables from PostGIS to Shapefiles
- Converting an OpenStreetMap (OSM) XML to a Shapefile
- Converting a Shapefile (vector) to a GeoTiff (raster)
- Converting a raster (GeoTiff) to a vector (Shapefile) using GDAL
- Creating a Shapefile from point data stored in Microsoft Excel
- Converting an ESRI ASCII DEM to an image height map
Introduction
Geospatial data comes in hundreds of formats and massaging this data from one format to another is a simple task. The ability to convert between data types, such as rasters ...
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