This driver reads files encoded in the French EDIGEO exchange format, a text based file format aimed at exchanging geographical information between GIS, with powerful description capabilities, topology modelling, etc.
The driver has been developed to read files of the French PCI (Plan Cadastral Informatisé - Digital Cadastral Plan) as produced by the DGI (Direction Générale des Impots - General Tax Office). The driver should also be able to open other EDIGEO based products.
The driver must be provided with the .THF file describing the EDIGEO exchange and it will read the associated .DIC, .GEO, .SCD, .QAL and .VEC files.
In order the SRS of the layers to be correctly built, the IGNF file that contains the defintion of IGN SRS must be placed in the directory of PROJ.4 resource files.
The whole set of files will be parsed into memory. This may be a limitation if dealing with big EDIGEO exchanges.
It will also add the following fields :
By default, OGR will create specific layers (xxx_LABEL) to dispatch into the various labels of the ID_S_OBJ_Z_1_2_2 layer according to the value of xxx=OBJ_OBJ_LNK_LAYER. This can be disabled by setting OGR_EDIGEO_CREATE_LABEL_LAYERS to NO.