Where do I find the ogr2ogr command for Mac OS X Lion?

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I am looking for the equivalent of FWTools for Mac OS X, Lion. Is there anything I can easily install and get that command?

score 40 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 03:23

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ogr2ogr is part of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL).

Get homebrew from http://brew.sh
brew install gdal

answered Jan 30 '14 at 03:23

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score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 13 '12 at 01:20

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You can find Mac GDAL downloads here: http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/archive#gdal OGR and the associated utilities (i.e ogr2ogr and ogrinfo) are included with GDAL.

answered Feb 13 '12 at 01:20

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Yup, thanks. It gets installed to /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.8/Programs/ogr2ogr – CLJ Feb 13 '12 at 01:32
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Or, brew install gdal (http://brew.sh) – Meekohi Jan 29 '14 at 17:19
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@Meekohi you should add that as an answer, not as a comment. – user2856 Jan 29 '14 at 23:12
As you command. – Meekohi Jan 30 '14 at 03:23
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@Meekohi I suggested you add that as answer so I could vote for it. Which I have. No commands intended ;) – user2856 Jan 30 '14 at 03:46
This version doesn't appear to include Oracle support. On windows, there is an option to include the oracle support, how would we do this here for mac? – chrismarx Nov 29 '16 at 19:28
No idea. Try homebrew and the osgeo4mac tap, it has a gdal-oracle formula – user2856 Nov 29 '16 at 22:18

boulder_ruby · Answer 3 · 2014-01-26T01:57:12.783

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Taking the information from the above, here's how you would actually get the ogr2ogr command working like it should

add this to your ~/.bash_profile script:

export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.[YOURVERSIONHERE]/Programs/:$PATH

the above code also adds a bunch of other gdal libraries to your path as well

edited Jan 26 '14 at 01:57

answered Nov 02 '13 at 18:43

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Well put @boulder_ruby - exactly what I needed! – Joey Schluchter Jan 21 '14 at 15:34
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You can also use "Current" as the [YOURVERSIONHERE] – Tom Lee Oct 22 '18 at 14:07
Try restarting your computer after you add this to your path. And if that doesn't work, try adding a manual PATH variable to the QGIS settings page: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/285832/gdalbuildvrt-command-not-found-in-build-virtual-raster-tool – oatmilkyway Nov 07 '18 at 04:57
@plnnr not necessary. To reload ~/.bash_profile just reload a new terminal or run source ~/.bash_profile – boulder_ruby Dec 19 '18 at 15:03

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 06 '23 at 17:34

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brew install gdal

You will either have to symlink the ogr2ogr binary to your PATH our just use it directly. in my case. I found it under /opt/homebrew/opt/gdal/bin/ogr2ogr using:

brew --prefix gdal

answered Nov 06 '23 at 17:34

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Where do I find the ogr2ogr command for Mac OS X Lion?

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