Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#1693 closed bug (wontfix)

Problems parsing some ArcGIS shapefiles

Reported by: matter Owned by: nobody
Priority: major: does not work as expected Milestone: Version 1.0.3
Component: OGR Layer support Version: Trunk
Keywords: Shapefile support Cc: warmerdam
Must Fix for Release: No Platform: All
Platform Version: Awaiting user input: no

Description

Compatibility or parsing problems have been noted with shapefiles made or exported from Arc 9.x, resulting in a "xxxxxxx.shp is not a valid or recognized data source" dialogue. The shapefiles work in Arc, so this may be easily solved by allowing for some tolerance in the OGR library? ​Example shapefiles can be downloaded here.

Change History (3)

in reply to:  description comment:1 by matter, 15 years ago

Platform: Debian → All

Replying to matter:

Compatibility or parsing problems have been noted with shapefiles made or exported from Arc 9.x, resulting in a "xxxxxxx.shp is not a valid or recognized data source" dialogue. The shapefiles work in Arc, so this may be easily solved by allowing for some tolerance in the OGR library? ​Example shapefiles can be downloaded here.

comment:2 by warmerdam, 15 years ago

Cc: warmerdam added

The EagleStreams.zip file does not contain 1_10K_EagleBasemap_Streams.shx. The OGR Shapefile driver (and shapelib) require the .shx file to exist though in theory this requirement could be relaxed.

I don't think this is really a qgis problem, and if desired it should be refiled as an enhancement request to OGR or possibly to Shapelib itself.

comment:3 by pcav, 15 years ago

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

Matter, please submit it to OGR

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