There's no reason technically you can't do it. You will need to hack the loader to ignore the fact that the other files are missing, but shp file alone does contain all the information you need.<div><br>P.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:23 PM, karsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karsten@terragis.net" target="_blank">karsten@terragis.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial"><span>Hi
All,</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Arial"><span>I am
working on a data upload function where for a web map a user can upload a shape
file onto the server, the file will then be loaded via a utility into PostGIS
e.g. using ogr2ogr or shp2pgsql.</span></font></div>
<div><span><font><font face="Arial"><font color="#000080">Now we all know that <table><tbody><tr><td><span>usually a shape files has at least 3 files shp, shx and dbf
to be complete... but unusually </span></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><span>- </span><span>well I was
wondering if it would be possible to only use a shp file alone to load the
geometry to PostGIS (if it is ok to lose index and attributes)
</span></td></tr></tbody></table></font></font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font><font face="Arial"><font color="#000080"><span></span></font></font></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Arial">The
reason is this would have several advantages for the work I am tying to
do</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Arial">1. the
shape file is user provided (if will be always 'simple' polygon shapes, but due
to that will always have non consistent attributes (i.e not the same tabel
schema) which are not needed anyway for the purposes of the
app</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Arial">2. the
geometry alone will be used to show areas of Interest for the user on the map
(attributes are not needed, only location and extent
matters)</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Arial">3.
inconsistencies of differing attributes will not be a problem if I could
in fact only import the geometry to PostGIS and simply add a unique gid and user
id as only default attributes to the PostGIS table</font></span></div>
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<div><font><font face="Arial"><font color="#000080"><span><span></span></span></font></font></font> </div>
<div><font><font face="Arial"><font color="#000080"><span><span>A</span><span>ny ideas on that weird idea ,
if that could be accomplished with existing tools without too much trouble
?</span></span><span>
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<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Arial">Cheers</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Arial">Karsten</font></span></div></span></div>
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