diff --git a/bgt/etl/conf/etl-imgeo-v2.1.1.cfg b/bgt/etl/conf/etl-imgeo-v2.1.1.cfg
index 0c44b2a6..3258cf10 100644
--- a/bgt/etl/conf/etl-imgeo-v2.1.1.cfg
+++ b/bgt/etl/conf/etl-imgeo-v2.1.1.cfg
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ spatial_extent = {spatial_extent}
 # gfs template: not needed, since this is being taken care of by the GfsPreparationFilter
 #gfs_template = {temp_dir}/prepped.gfs
 # miscellaneous ogr2ogr options
-options = -append -gt 65536 {multi_opts}
+options = -append -gt 65536 --config GML_SRS_DIMENSION_IF_MISSING 2 {multi_opts}
 # cleanup input?
 cleanup_input = True
 
diff --git a/stetlcomponents/gfspreparationfilter.py b/stetlcomponents/gfspreparationfilter.py
index bfe10892..f529d77f 100644
--- a/stetlcomponents/gfspreparationfilter.py
+++ b/stetlcomponents/gfspreparationfilter.py
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ def invoke(self, packet):
         return packet
 
     def execute_ogrinfo(self, gml_file):
-        ogrinfo_cmd = 'ogrinfo -ro -al -so %s' % gml_file
+        ogrinfo_cmd = 'ogrinfo --config GML_SRS_DIMENSION_IF_MISSING 2 -ro -al -so %s' % gml_file
 
         use_shell = True
         if os.name == 'nt':