[gdal-dev] cannot open shape file created in linux in windows

[gaffigan at sfos.uaf.edu]

Hello.  You might try the following:
  ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" grid.shp grid.vrt -nlt multipoint

The important part is that the source dataset is the vrt definition file,
not the csv data file.  See http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html.

Hopefully it's this easy.

Steve


> Hi,
>
> I used --- ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" grid grid.csv -nlt multipoint
----- to convert a series of points (in csv format) into a shape file of
multiple points. I also have a grid.vrt and a grid.csvt file that are
used in this conversion. A directory named grid was created and under it
there are 3 files, namely, grid.shp, grid.dbf, and grid.shx. Using
ogrinfo grid returns,
> INFO: Open of 'grid', using driver 'ESRI Shapefile" successful. 1:grid
(multi point).
> Also using ogrinfo -ro -al grid returns a series of records, and the
last one is
> OGRFeature (grid): 5374
> long (Real) = -100.08310911830001
> lat (Real) = 44.963133226799997
> data (Real) = 3
> mapped dat (Real) = 68.000000000
>
> The above commands were executed in Linux with gdal installed. After
transferring grid folder to windows, I can open them, but nothing show
up (I tried ENVI and FWTool). For example, in FWTool, it seemed that the
shape file can be opened, but this is what showed in the Shape
> Attributes window,
>
> Where did I do wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Xiaodong
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