[Gdal-dev] Problem on creating a simple point shapefile with OGR

[Julien Demaria]

Lin,

This is a common error you get when the output file (.shp .shx and .dbf) 
already exists, remove it first and it'll works.


Julien


Zheng, Lin ERDC-TEC-VA a écrit :
> Hi All,
>     I am a newbie on OGR.  I read the OGR API tutorial and tried to 
> compile the "writing to OGR" example with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, 
> where a single shapefile is created using OGR.  The program compiled 
> successfully, but when after I ran it, it returned:
>                     "ERROR 1: point_out.shp is not a directory.
>                      Creation of output file failed."
>    I also read through the documentation on ESRI shapefile, and it 
> specifically said that it is possible to use one of the files (.shp, 
> .shx or .dbf) in a shapefile set as the dataset name.  Did I forget to 
> add something?  Can anyone please help me?
>  
>         Thank you very much.
>  
>    Lin Zheng
> 
> 
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