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Using GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library and rgdal


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gdal


gdal url:http://www.gdal.org/
is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing.
Cédric => What I've found at this site is not really helpfull, it is only python and c++ code.
url:http://www.bostongis.com/?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet => Cedric: very good site !
url:http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ Cedric : a bit too hard for me

Below we suppose that you have the Qgis tool installed, so your path is C:\OSGeo4W Qgis has gdal included. Gdal comes with two main tools (executable files), the files for gdal are in

C:\OSGeo4W\share\gdal

call >cmd

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr

or

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogrinfo

Translating .mdb into shapes outside ESRI


C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\base\basesig\Czhyd.shp C:\base\basesig\Czhyd.mdb

Cedric : this one works but warning there should be no space in the path (ex : no "document and settings/"...)

Conversion from PostGIS to ESRI Shape

adapted from url: http://www.bostongis.com/?content_name=ogr_cheatsheet The pgsql2shp and shp2pgsql are usually the best tools for converting back and forth between PostGIS and ESRI for 2 main reasons.

  • It has fewer idiosyncracies when converting data.
  • It has a lot fewer dependencies so can fit on your floppy.

If you really want to use Ogr2Ogr for this kind of conversion, below is the standard way to do it Here the example should export the table riversegments
Cedric

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\base\basesig\essai.shp PG:"host=localhost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433" "riversegments"

Celine (pwd to be precised)

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\base\basesig\essai.shp PG:"host=localhost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=PWD" "riversegments"

Cedric : celui ci marche mais j'ai eu du mal, ne marche pas une deuxième fois si les shape sont déjà crées dans le répertoire

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\base\basesig\essai PG:"host=localhost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433" "riversegments"

Cedric : OK marche de nouveau
Selecting specific fields, sets of data and Geometry
Sometimes you have more than one geometry field in a table, and ESRI shape can only support one geometry field per shape. Also you may only want a subset of data. In these cases, you will need to select the geometry field to use. The most flexible way to do this is to use the -sql command which will take any sql statement.

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" C:\base\basesig\essai1 PG:"host=locahost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433" -sql "SELECT gid, the_geom FROM riversegments"

Cedric : ne marche pas, j'obtiens un message du type Unable to open datasource with following drivers, celui là on l'a très très souvent, j'ai essayé plusieurs trucs je ne comprends pas, la requete marche dans pgadmin

One way in which ogr2ogr excels above using the pgsql2shp tool is that ogr2ogr can export multiple tables at once. This is pretty handy for sharing your postgis data with others who do not have a postgis database.

The code below will export all your postgis tables out into a folder called mydatadump in ESRI shape (shp) format.

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" essai2 PG:"host=locahost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433"

Now most of the time you probably only want to output a subset of your postgis tables rather than all your tables. This code exports only the riversegments and rivernodes tables to a folder called c:/base/basesig/mydatadump in ESRI shapefile format

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" c:/base/basesig/mydatadump PG:"host=localhost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433" riversegments rivernodes

Cedric Celui là marche même si il n'y a pas de guillemet"

Notes plus tard... Dans Qgis, le Rgdal fait la même chose, mais je pense qu'il faut lancer le C:\OSGeo4W\bin\gdal16.bat pour mettre à niveau les classpath ...

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Connecting PostGIS with R using Rgdal


The rddal is made of functions which point out to the c code functions of gdal, it seems to have been developped for intamap eu project which is also an R library and the most interesting page can be found at the following location url: http://wiki.intamap.org/index.php/PostGIS et bien sûr ça marche pas ...
A nice example script follows which I translated into the following code

library(rgdal)
layer = readOGR("PG:dbname=CCM", "riversegments")

but it doesn't work So after a quite long time spent in gdal, I can translate into the more complex dsn

require(rgdal)
readOGR(dsn="PG:host=locahost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433",layer="riversegments")

However the R invariably returns an absolutely not helpful code, and the same with R2.10 or R2.10.1

> require(rgdal)
Le chargement a nécessité le package : rgdal
Le chargement a nécessité le package : sp
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.6.2, released 2009/07/31
Path to GDAL shared files: C:/Program Files/R/R-2.10.0/library/rgdal/gdal
Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.6.1, 21 August 2008
Path to PROJ.4 shared files: C:/Program Files/R/R-2.10.0/library/rgdal/proj
Message d'avis :
le package 'sp' a été compilé avec la version R 2.10.1 
> readOGR(dsn="PG:host=localhost dbname=CCM user=postgres passwd=postgres port=5433",layer="riversegments")
Erreur dans ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, input_field_name_encoding = input_field_name_encoding) : 
  Cannot open file

Interestingly it is the pointer to ogrinfo() which fails so we will try this with ogrinfo (which is found at the same place than ogr2ogr

C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogrinfo -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=locahost user=postgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433"

which returns

C:\base\basesig>C:\OSGeo4W\bin\ogrinfo -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"host=locahost user=po
stgres dbname=CCM password=postgres port=5433"
Usage: ogrinfo [--help-general] [-ro] [-q] [-where restricted_where]
               [-spat xmin ymin xmax ymax] [-fid fid]
               [-sql statement] [-al] [-so] [--formats]
               datasource_name [layer [layer ...]]

There does not seem to be any problem and also nothing is returned ... The next example for writing

library(rgdal)
writeOGR(meuse[1:10,], "PG:dbname=postgis", "meuse3", "PostgreSQL")

returns

Erreur dans writeOGR(meuse[1:10, ], "PG:dbname=postgis", "meuse3", "PostgreSQL") : 
  No such driver: PostgreSQL

All examples which do not imply postgres work

logo <- system.file("pictures/logo.jpg", package="rgdal")[1]
x <- new("GDALReadOnlyDataset", logo)
x
getDriverLongName(getDriver(x))
displayDataset(x)
ogrDrivers()
dsn <- system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1]
ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="cities")
cities <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="cities")
summary(cities)
ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="kiritimati_primary_roads")
kiritimati_primary_roads <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="kiritimati_primary_roads")
summary(kiritimati_primary_roads)
ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="scot_BNG")
scot_BNG <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="scot_BNG")
summary(scot_BNG)
if ("GML" %in% ogrDrivers()$name) {
	dsn <- system.file("vectors/airports.gml", package = "rgdal")[1]
	airports <- try(readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="airports"))
	if (class(airports) != "try-error") summary(airports)
}
dsn <- system.file("vectors/ps_cant_31.MIF", package = "rgdal")[1]
ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="ps_cant_31")
ps_cant_31 <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="ps_cant_31")
summary(ps_cant_31)
dsn <- system.file("vectors/Up.tab", package = "rgdal")[1]
ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="Up")
Up <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="Up")
summary(Up)
dsn <- system.file("vectors/test_trk2.gpx", package = "rgdal")[1]
test_trk2 <- try(readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="tracks"))
if (class(test_trk2) != "try-error") summary(test_trk2)
test_trk2pts <- try(readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="track_points"))
if (class(test_trk2pts) != "try-error") summary(test_trk2pts)
dsn <- system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1]
ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="trin_inca_pl03")
birds <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="trin_inca_pl03")
summary(birds)

mmmh ... and PostgreSQL in not listed in ogrDrivers()

ogrDrivers()
> ogrDrivers()
             name write
1          AVCBin FALSE
2          AVCE00 FALSE
3             BNA  TRUE
4             CSV  TRUE
5             DGN  TRUE
6  ESRI Shapefile  TRUE
7      Geoconcept  TRUE
8         GeoJSON  TRUE
9             GML  TRUE
10            GMT  TRUE
11            GPX  TRUE
12            KML  TRUE
13   MapInfo File  TRUE
14         Memory  TRUE
15            REC FALSE
16            S57  TRUE
17           SDTS FALSE
18          TIGER  TRUE
19        UK .NTF FALSE
20            VRT FALSE
21         XPlane FALSE

in url:http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html rgdal.pdf read.ogr details we read :

"The drivers available will depend on the installation of GDAL/OGR, and can vary; the ogrDrivers() function shows which are available, and which may be written (but all are assumed to be readable). Note that stray files in data source directories (such as *.dbf) may lead to suprious errors that ac- companying *.shp are missing.
"


After sending a mail to the R-Sig-Geo list, the answer is as follows (by Roger Bivand and we thank him !)

If you mean the Windows binary rgdal package, then the answer is in

file.show(system.file("README", package="rgdal"))
file.show(system.file("README.windows", package="rgdal"))

The Windows binary package builds the minimal set of drivers, with only one external dependency (expat for reading GPX and KML). The file refered to describes how you might build rgdal from source, using FWTools or OSGEO4W as the provider of GDAL and its dependent DLLs. If you do try this out (look for the chunk beginning: "Initial notes for OSGeo4W"), and if:

source(system.file("OSGeo4W_test", package="rgdal"), echo=TRUE)

works, as well as PostGIS access, please let me know.


Installing FWTools is a convenient way to get started (but will be limited to the - extensive - range of drivers built into the binary package): cedric => however we are using Qgis and OSGeo4W tool so working with FWtools does not interest us url:http://fwtools.maptools.org/

url:http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#2008-Visual-CPP

To understand the script from the readme file (below), one has to be familiar with visual C++ The following pages are helpfull url:http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingWithMinGW for building with mingwin
url:http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/MakeFileProjects for building with windows
url:http://vterrain.org/Distrib/gdal.html to build against vc++
url:http://www.eoinmurphy.org/blog/2008/07/09/setting-up-mingw-and-msys/

Here is the Readme windows file from rgdal

#################################################
Initial notes for OSGeo4W: RSB 090117-20

Run in OSGeo4W console, after setting:

set OSGEO4W_BUILD=yes
set GDAL_HOME=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%
download rgdal sources
cd C:/rgdal/src
using visual c++ (vc9) command line
cl /MT /Ox /EHsc /D "WIN32" /c /I "C:/Program Files/R/R-2.10.1/include" /I C:/OSGeo4W/include /I "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include" /D OSGEO4W *.cpp
get the Rdll.lib
> install Mingw (avalaible also with Rtools) (I always come on a page with a lady when trying to follow the link. I hate her.
> install Msys http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
> configure Msys
> install pexports (available at the same location under MINGW pexports
under program /Mingw/Msys
go to R-2.10.1/bin
pexports R.dll > R.exp


link /dll /out:rgdal.dll /def:rgdal.def *.obj "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.1\bin\Rdll.lib" /libpath:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib" /libpath:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib" /libpath:"C:\OSGeo4W\lib" gdal_i.lib proj_i.lib
link /dll /out:rgdal.dll /def:rgdal.def *.obj "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.1\bin\Rdll.lib" /libpath:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\lib" /libpath:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Lib" /libpath:"C:\OSGeo4W\lib" gdal_i.lib proj_i.lib

cd ../..

Set Makefile.win as below to all:!!

R CMD INSTALL --build rgdal

Post-installation, start R from the OSGeo4W console (command line). If you want
to check that the OSGeo4W-aware rgdal is present, check the reported support
file locations, and consider running:

source(system.file("OSGeo4W_test", package="rgdal"), echo=TRUE)

The initial version (0.6-6) is preliminary.

###############################################################################
## Building rgdal binary against FWTools binary using VC++

MDSumner 30 April 2007

Windows XP2, SP2, .NET 2.0
Rtools in C:/R/Rtools.

Here I am using a 

        source install of R 2.5.0 in C:/R/Rsrc/R-2.5.0
        with a source install of sp 0.9-14, and 
        binary install of FWTools 1.2.2 in C:/FWTools.  

gdalinfo --version
GDAL 1.4.0.0, FWTools 1.2.2, released 2007/02/22

I have Visual C++ 2005, Express Edition.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/
Version 8.0.50727.42  (RTM.050727-4200)


I obtain rgdal_0.5-9 source via CVS:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rgdal login 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rgdal co -P
rgdal

[R]/bin, [FWTools]/bin and [Rtools]/bin (as per standard R windows) are all in
the path.

1. Ensure you have Rdll.lib

## Build Rdll.lib and place in [R]\libs\ (see example below in link step, and
see
## 
http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/compilingDLLs/readme.packages.t
xt)

## [R]src\gnuwin32

make R.exp
lib /def:R.exp /out:Rdll.lib

2. Ensure the configure.win, Makefile.win and RGDAL.def are all correct. 



## set the location of GDAL_HOME in configure.win (mine is GDAL_HOME="C:/FWTools")
## Also change libgdal-1.dll to gdal_fw.dll in configure.win

Specifically, mine looks like this:

-//-- start configure.win

#!/bin/sh
if test -z "$GDAL_HOME" ; then
    GDAL_HOME="C:/FWTools"
fi
echo "GDAL_HOME=${GDAL_HOME}" > src/Makeconf.win

echo "using GDAL_HOME: ${GDAL_HOME}"

mkdir $DPKG/libs
cp ${GDAL_HOME}/bin/gdal_fw.dll $DPKG/libs

-//-- end configure.win


## [rgdal]/src  
##   - includes a Makefile.win with one line:   all:
##   - and RGDAL.def as supplied in rgdal/src

Place Makefile.win in src/, containing a single line:

all:


## run command window with VC++ (I can't see how else to include it in the path)
## First compile the C++ against R and FWTools include


3. Compile and link

cl /MT /Ox /EHsc /D "WIN32" /c /I C:/R/Rsrc/R-2.5.0/include /I C:/FWTools/include
*.cpp

## Then link the resulting files with R and gdal:
##  (note that this includes all the present .obj files, and the gdal_ and proj_ libs from GDAL_HOME

link /dll /out:rgdal.dll /def:rgdal.def *.obj C:\R\Rsrc\R-2.5.0\libs\Rdll.lib /libpath:"C:\FWTools\lib" gdal_i.lib proj_i.lib

4. Then build and install rgdal as normal.

R CMD build --binary rgdal

or (better)

R CMD INSTALL --build rgdal

to build a Windows binary package (zipfile)
or

R CMD INSTALL rgdal 

to install.

This step will fail if src/Makefile.win is not in place.

At this stage you will see errors if gdal_fw.dll (libgdal-1.dll) can't be found
(I don't know the difference, it seems to work)

R CMD INSTALL --library [path-to-[R]/library-of-choice] rgdal_[version#].tar.gz

...urlhttp://download.osgeo.org/fdo/3.4.1/binaries/

help for rgdal package
url:file:///C:/Program%20Files/R/R-2.10.0/library/rgdal/html/00Index.html

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