[gdal-dev] gdaltindex invalid shapefile

[Frank Warmerdam]

Oliver Ishmael wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I am trying to use gdaltindex to create a raster tile index for a series 
> of aerial photos.
> 
>  
> 
> C:\Program Files\FWTools2.0.6\bin>gdaltindex c:\2006\2006.shp c:\2006\*.ecw
> 
> ERROR 4: Unable to open c:\2006\2006.shp or c:\2006\2006.SHP.
> 
> Creating new index file...
> 
>  
> 
> The resulting dbf of the shapefile has a ‘location’ field showing the 
> location of all the ecw files. This is it. It seems to be missing the 
> XMIN, YMIN, XMAX, YMAX fields and consequently ArcGIS is unable to load 
> the resulting 2006.shp
> 
>  
> 
> Using gdalinfo –stats I could manually enter this information but it 
> would take quite a while. So I just wanted to check that I’m doing 
> everything correctly?

Olly,

Does the correponding .shp file not have polygons for each record in the
.dbf file?  It is the polygons which define the footprint of each file.

Note, -stats produces information on the pixel values, not their spatial
locations.

Best regards,
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