wkbMultiPolygon and Shapefile

[sylvain.rioux@…]

Cannot get wkbMultiPolygon features from Shapefiles.
I have a sample file but don't know how to send it in Bugzilla. Just tell me if 
you need one.

[sylvain.rioux@…]

ShapeFile

[warmerdam]

Sylvain, 

I took a look at this file, and first it is a line file, not a polygon file. 

With my fixes of a few weeks ago in OGR, I now seem to get multilinestrings
from the appropriate places in this file now. 

eg.

warmerda@gdal2200[14]% ogrinfo -ro -al . | more
INFO: Open of `.'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.

Layer name: rivers
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 30
Extent: (-115.041496, 15.439924) - (-90.658142, 32.720833)
Layer SRS WKT:
(unknown)
NAME: String (40.0)
SYSTEM: String (40.0)
OGRFeature(rivers):0
  NAME (String) = Amajac
  SYSTEM (String) = (null)
  LINESTRING (-98.74583435 21.27520370,-98.78140259 21.18055344,-98.95611572 21.
07499695,-98.96250916 21.01194382,-99.00361633 21.01805496,-99.05612183 20.94499
969,-99.02223206 20.84694290,-98.96139526 20.81638718,-98.88862610 20.58194351,-
98.83528137 20.52222061,-98.81140137 20.33499908,-98.73083496 20.32583237,-98.69
778442 20.28388596)

OGRFeature(rivers):1
  NAME (String) = Balsas
  SYSTEM (String) = Balsas
  MULTILINESTRING ((-102.91555786 19.93055344,-102.80734253 19.89915085,-102.891
40320 19.83082962,-102.82945251 19.77194214,-102.78028870 19.47305298,-102.74501
038 19.42499924,-102.78140259 19.37777710,-102.77862549 19.29886246,-102.8122253
4 19.35694122,-103.06723022 19.44749832,-103.06472778 19.55694199),(-102.7786254
9 19.29886246,-102.77139282 19.17472076,-102.63722229 19.05305481,-102.48722839 

...

I will do a little more verification to see if the multi line strings seem
right, but off hand things look ok.  Can you give more info on why you believe
they are broken?