[GIS] gdal_grid with CSV file and VRT “No point geometry found on layer”

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Given the following .vrt file which I manually created:

<OGRVRTDataSource>
    <OGRVRTLayer name="DGM5_BE">
        <SrcDataSource>DGM5_BE.txt</SrcDataSource>
        <SrcLayer>DGM5_BE</SrcLayer>
        <LayerSRS>EPSG:25833</LayerSRS>
        <GeometryType>wkbPoint</GeometryType>
        <GeometryField encoding="PointFromColumns" x="x" y="y" z="d"/>
    </OGRVRTLayer>
</OGRVRTDataSource>

and the associated DGM5_BE.txt – here are the first lines:

x;y;d
397200;5837250;59,15
397205;5837250;59,04
397200;5837245;59,03
397205;5837245;58,94
397195;5837240;58,93
397200;5837240;58,9
397205;5837240;58,86
397210;5837240;58,9
397190;5837235;58,98

I run the following command to convert the DGM5:

$ gdal_grid -of GTiff -ot Float32 -l DGM5_BE DGM5_BE.vrt DGM5_BE.tif

This fails with the following error message:

ERROR 1: Failed to open datasource `DGM5_BE.txt'.
No point geometry found on layer DGM5_BE, skipping.

Best Answer

From the CSV driver documentation:

Starting with GDAL 1.8.0, for files structured as CSV, but not ending with .CSV extension, the 'CSV:' prefix can be added before the filename to force loading by the CSV driver.

Either rename DGM5_BE.txt to DGM5_BE.csv or change the <SrcDataSource> element to:

<SrcDataSource>CSV:DGM5_BE.txt</SrcDataSource>
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