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Posted on February 10, 2023 (Updated on July 10, 2025)

How to use ogr2ogr to only add new features to an existing layer?

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What does ogr2ogr do?

Description. ogr2ogr can be used to convert simple features data between file formats. It can also perform various operations during the process, such as spatial or attribute selection, reducing the set of attributes, setting the output coordinate system or even reprojecting the features during translation.

What formats does ogr2ogr output in?

Ogr supports many data formats here is a subset of the ones we commonly use: ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo Tab file, CSV, DBF, GML, KML, Interlis, SQLite, GeoPackage,SpatiaLite, ODBC, ESRI GeoDatabase (MDB format), ESRI GDB database, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, MySQL.

What is the difference between OGR and GDAL?

In a nutshell, OGR is a vector library while GDAL is a raster library. From the FAQ: OGR is “a vector IO library inspired by ​OpenGIS Simple Features” the source code to which is “somewhat entangled” with GDAL sources.

How do I import ogr2ogr?

Importing and exporting data with the ogr2ogr GDAL command

  1. Unzip the wborders. zip archive to your working directory. You can find this archive in the book’s dataset.
  2. Import the world countries shapefile ( wborders. shp ) in PostGIS using the ogr2ogr command.


What is OGR format?

What is OGR? ¶ The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ Open Source library (and command-line tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and MapInfo mid/mif and TAB formats.

What does ogr stand for?

OGR used to stand for OpenGIS Simple Features Reference Implementation.

What is output file format?

Definitions of output file. (computer science) a computer file that contains data that are the output of a device or program. type of: computer file. (computer science) a file maintained in computer-readable form.

What is an ogr file?

What is OGR? ¶ The OGR Simple Features Library is a C++ Open Source library (and command-line tools) providing read (and sometimes write) access to a variety of vector file formats including ESRI Shapefiles, and MapInfo mid/mif and TAB formats.

What does ogr stand for?

OGR used to stand for OpenGIS Simple Features Reference Implementation.

What is Osgeo OGR?

Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL/OGR) provides command-line utilities to translate and process a wide range of raster and vector geospatial data formats. The utilities are based upon a cross platform, C++ library, accessible via numerous programming languages.

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