[Gdal-dev] Error code in TIGER 2004 --> ESRI shape file conversion

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:45:49 -0500, Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov
<Doug_Newcomb at fws.gov> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>       Ran
>   ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" tgr37001rt2b.shp TGR37001.RT2
> 
>   with FWtools 0.95 on a windows 2000 on a 2004 TIGER file downloaded from
> the Census . Seemed to create the shape file ok, but gave the following
> error message:
> 
> ERROR 6: Can't create fields of type IntegerList on shapefile layers.
> 
>       The same message occurs when running on linux with GDAL 1.2.4  and on
> WindowsXP with data for Georgia.
> 
>       I thought shape files could only do Integer, Float, or String fields.
> Does the IntegerList need to be converted to a String field for shape file
> conversion? ( If that would be a valid generalization, showing my ignorance
> of the TIGER format).   Just wanted to check the list to see if there was
> something blindingly obvious that I was not doing before I entered it on
> Bugzilla.

Doug, 

This is not a bug, it is a limitation of shapefile format.  The normal
way of dealing with this is to use the -skipfailures option for ogr2ogr.
This will allow ogr2ogr to continue though you will be losing the 
integerlist field(s).   I don't think they are anything to critical. 

Best regards,

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