<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Understood Anita, thank you.<br><br>I am just providing a description here. Let me know if you prefer a recording, but overall these are just the basic initial steps that are stymieing me:<br>
<br></div>1) I've download 64 byte QGIS 2.0.1 - no problems.<br></div>2) I then separately go here: <a href="http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata</a> , and download the "administrative areas" zip file from under the Tunisia option (though, again, I did try other countries to test after running into said problems). The zip (attached) includes files for different admin levels, but also all the files for adm1 that I require.<br>
</div>3) I have done several things at this point - from going directly to the TUN_adm1.shp and trying to "open as", to most recently opening up QGIS first, selecting "add vector layer" and then going to the specific .shp file (TUN_adm.shp). I have also pulled that file out of the zip and put it by itself on the desktop and then tried to open through the 'add vector layer' button. <br>
</div>4) On these last attempts, the shp file has now assumed the "QGIS" icon (whereas before, when trying to "open as", it either converted it to a pdf, or asked for additional software to open a NirCmd file (<a href="http://nirsoft.net" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">nirsoft.net</a>)) -- a puzzle I never solved, but seemed on the wrong track anyway).<br>
</div>5) Alas, I can browse, select the TUN_adm1 file, then "open," but always get the following message for 3 seconds before it disappears:<br><br><span style="font-weight:600">Invalid Data Source: </span>C:\Users\Matt Klick\Desktop\TUN_adm1.shp is not a valid or recognized data source<br>
<br></div>BUT....I think i might have just got the right sequence...will update....<br><br></div>Thank you for your help and patience,<br><br>MK<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Anita Graser [via OSGeo.org] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096595&i=0" target="_top" rel="nofollow" link="external">[hidden email]</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Matthew,
<br><br>Please provide a step-by-step description of what you are doing to
<br>starting from downloading the file or record a screencast
<br>(<a href="http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screen_recorder" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screen_recorder</a>). It's really hard to
<br>guess what's going wrong without details.
<br><br>Best wishes,
<br>Anita
<br><br><br></div>Am 06.01.2014, 17:37 Uhr, schrieb Matt_Klick <<a href="http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096589&i=0" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">[hidden email]</a>>:
<br><div><div class="im"><div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>> Thank you both Frank and Alexandre,
<br>>
<br>> It is appreciated.
<br>>
<br>> I'm afraid I am using both the add vector layer, and have the complete
<br>> set
<br>> of files downloaded, and still no luck -- and now on several computers
<br>> and
<br>> having reinstalled QGIS, and having re-downloaded files, a half dozen
<br>> times
<br>> at least.
<br>>
<br>> I have only been using files downloaded from DIVA-GIS though, so perhaps
<br>> I
<br>> will try getting fields from somewhere else.
<br>>
<br>> Best, M
<br>>
<br>>
<br>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Sr. Neto [via OSGeo.org] <
<br>> <a href="http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096589&i=1" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">[hidden email]</a>> wrote:
<br>>
<br>>> Also, confirm that you have the complete set of files of shapefile.
<br>>>
<br>>> You must have (at least) a .SHP, a .SHX and a .DBF with the same name.
<br>>>
<br>>> Best regards,
<br>>>
<br>>> Alexandre Neto
<br>>>
<br>>>
<br>>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Frank Sokolic <[hidden
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<br><div><div class="h5">>> > wrote:
<div class='shrinkable-quote'><br>>>
<br>>>> Hi Matt,
<br>>>>
<br>>>> Are you using the "Add Vector Layer" command to open the shapefiles? If
<br>>>> not, go to the "Layer" menu and select the "Add Vector Layer" command.
<br>>>> You
<br>>>> can then choose "Browse" to look for the shapefile you want to load.
<br>>>>
<br>>>> Regards, Frank.
<br>>>>
<br>>>>
<br>>>> On 06/01/2014 06:57, Matt_Klick wrote:
<br>>>>
<br>>>>> No luck on this yet, but thank you for your suggestion. On another
<br>>>>> computer, I still cannot upload shp files - instead changing them to
<br>>>>> nursoft (??) files. In any event, I cannot yet open a shp file using
<br>>>>> QGIS.
<br>>>>>
<br>>>>>
<br>>>>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Akinyemi Bojerenu [via OSGeo.org]
<br>>>>> <[hidden email] </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096495&i=0>>
<br>>>>> wrote:
<br>>>>>
<br>>>>> Hi,
<br>>>>> Please extract the contents of the zip file first into a
<br>>>>> destination
<br>>>>> folder of choice.
<br>>>>> When opening a shapefile, navigate to your folder to select the
<br>>>>> shapefile(s).
<br>>>>> Hope this helps..
<br>>>>> Yemi
<br>>>>>
<br>>>>> On Jan 4, 2014 9:13 AM, "Matt_Klick" <[hidden email]
<br>>>>> <<a href="http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096323&i=0" rel="nofollow" link="external" target="_blank">http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096323&i=0</a>>> wrote:
<br>>>>>
<br>>>>> I'm very new to any GIS type platforms, so please forgive the
<br>>>>> ignorance on
<br>>>>> display here (and I did search for answers to this elsewhere).
<br>>>>> I've
<br>>>>> downloaded QGIS 2.0.1. I separately downloaded Tunisia
<br>>>>> administrative data
<br>>>>> from DIVA-GIS. When I open QGIS, it does not find the .zip
<br>>>>> file,
<br>>>>> nor any of
<br>>>>> the shp files. In my efforts to correct, I managed to convert
<br>>>>> shp files into
<br>>>>> pdfs. Even though I've re-installed QGIS, and deleted and
<br>>>>> re-downloaded
<br>>>>> Tunisia files, shp files are once again pdfs, and QGIS cannot
<br>>>>> "see" any shp
<br>>>>> files. Any advice, or thoughts on what I'm doing wrong,
<br>>>>> greatly
<br>>>>> appreciated.
<br>>>>> -MK
<br>>>>>
<br>>>>>
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