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18. Now, you will import the
countries
shapefile to its model. In the next re-
cipe,youwillusethismodeltofindoutthecountrywhereeachsightingoc-
curred. Before going ahead in this recipe, investigate the shapefile struc-
ture—youwillneedtoimportjustthe
NAME
and
ISO2
attributestothemodel
as the
name
and
isocode
attributes, using the following command:
$ ogrinfo TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp
TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3 -al -so
INFO: Open of `TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
successful.
Layer name: TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3
Geometry: Polygon
Feature Count: 246
Extent: (-180.000000, -90.000000) -
(180.000000, 83.623596)
