[Gdal-dev] problems with shapefiles produced with fme translator

[Frank Warmerdam]

publi at infonegocio.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I'm working in a city map, and i have an autocad files with all 
> information. I'm using fme to translate AutoCad -> Shapefile, but i have 
> a problem. Fme work perfectly and i can see all the files generated by 
> it with ForestyGis, Arcview 3.3 and MapMaker 3.5. But when i copy this 
> file to linux and i try to do "#ogrinfo -al Textos1_line.shp", the 
> result is the next:
>           Unable to open datasource 'Textos1_line.shp with the following 
> drivers:
>         -> ESRI Shapefile
>         -> UK .NTF
>         ..........
>         ..........
> 
>   When i make shapefile with ArcView, no problem, ogrinfo works, and i 
> can see it with mapserver. But when the shapefile was maden with fme, it 
> doesn't work. The file produced by fme have 13888 features and the .shp 
> file have 2.34 MB, Are too many????. I have installed gdal-1.2.3 and i'm 
> working with mapserver 4.2.5 and Maplab 2.2. Why can i see it with gdal 
> and OGR??????????. Thanks to all.

Hi,

I think you will need to make the files in question available for me to
diagnose the problem.  Submitting by bugzilla should be fine for that
amount of data.  Just submit the .shp, .shx, and .dbf along with a
description of the issue.

Thanks,

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