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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This mail is related to </span><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1525"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1525</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Quick recall :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white">We try to open DBF file using shapefile driver, but in our dataset we have empty SHP & SHX files (provided by customers, so
we can't remove it).</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E"><br>
<span style="background:white">To be able to open it, we use the <em><b><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX</span></b></em> option to bypass shp reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white">This option usage sounds to be a bit dirty workaround, especially when there are a parameter
<b><i>bForceSingleFileDataSource</i></b> on OGRShapeDataSource::Open() method.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/0d7d762895f268d0c3ddaed5ddac3605c727e501/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape/ogrshapedatasource.cpp#L150<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Maybe an open option could help us to deal with this case ? (<b><i>FORCE_SINGLE_FILE_DATA_SOURCE</i></b>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">--
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">Vincent Loppin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">VirtualGeo SDK Technical Expert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR">DIGINEXT - Virtual Reality Division</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New",serif;mso-fareast-language:FR"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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