[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr issues for vmap0 on Ubuntu Breezy

[Putler, Dan]

Many, many thanks Paul. The mixed case in the file paths was exactly  
the problem. It would have taken me a _long_ time to figure that one  
out on my own.

Dan

On 11-Jun-06, at 3:54 PM, Paul Surgeon wrote:

> On Sunday 11 June 2006 22:44, Putler, Dan wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to convert some vmap0 files to shapefile format (the
>> political boundary polygons to be exact) using ogr2ogr on an Ubuntu
>> "Breezy" system. I first used the FWTools 1.0.0b2 build of ogr2ogr to
>> do this. When doing the conversion, ogr2ogr doesn't complain, but
>> only writes out the field names and formats in the dbf along with the
>> prj file. The shp and shx file are created, but the don't appear to
>> have any actual information in them. Following this, I rebuilt the
>> gdal 1.3.1 library with ogdi support, and tried again, with the same
>> outcome (on all four vmap0 databases, so I don't think it is a
>> corruption issue). My guess is that I'm running into an Ubuntu
>> specific issue, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?
>>
>> On a related note, if someone has copies of the shapefile versions of
>> the political boundaries, allowing me to obtain them from you would
>> be greatly appreciated (yes, it is giving a man a fish, not teaching
>> him to fish, but it solves my short term problem).
>>
>> Dan
>
> Hi Dan
>
> It sounds like the case sensitive path issue that bit me a while back.
> A lot of vmap data was saved with mixed upper and lower case file  
> names and
> file extentions.
> How I got around it is I placed the vmap0 data in a path without  
> any upper
> case letters in it (/home/paul/tmp/vmap0) and ran ogrinfo and  
> ogr2ogr from
> there.
>
> If you prepend "strace -eopen" to your ogr commands you'll see  
> where it's
> hunting for files and whether it's finding them or not.
>
> In same cases you may have to rename the vmap directories or files.  
> Making
> everything lower case is the easiest route.
>
> paul at kubuntu:~/tmp/v0eur$ ogrinfo -so -ro
> gltp:/vrf/home/paul/tmp/v0eur/vmaplv0/eurnasia 'polbnda at bnd(*) 
> _area' | grep
> "Feature"
> Feature Count: 5847
>
> Regards
> Paul
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