I believe that the answer in gis.stackexchange http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/219177/can-colon-character-be-used-in-shapefile-field-names is correct. The dBase III format that is used in shapefiles for storing attributes does not accept colon in field names, and GDAL does not want to write invalid shapefiles.
Laundering has an effect if data are converted into PostGIS, Spatialite or other formats for which both "attribute_name" and "attribute:name" are valid as field names. -Jukka Rahkonen- -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/gdal-dev-laundering-of-field-s-names-in-GDAL-tp5297549p5297578.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
