[gdal-dev] ESRI arcgis 9.x

[Jérôme - GeoRezo.net]

Hello,

However, you can repair shapefiles. ESRI site give several tools, one :
http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=13733

After repairing, you will read your ESRI files with ogr how you want.

Thanks


-- 
Jérôme Cuinet


Selon Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:

> Donnet , Sebastien wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry in advance if it's a stupid (or already well covered) question,
> > but today I tried to read a shapefile coming from, I believe, ArcGIS 9.2
> > and run out into trouble:
> >
> > ERROR 4: Unable to open Bedrock.shx or Bedrock.SHX.
> > FAILURE:
> > Unable to open datasource `Bedrock.shp' with the following drivers.
> >
> > instead of an shx I have an sbn and an sbx
> >
> > My version of ogr/gdal: from FWTools226.exe
> > (I'm on windows)
> >
> > thanks in advance for any hints.
>
> Sebastien,
>
> OGR cannot currently read shapefiles without a .shx file.  The .sbn and
> .sbx files are spatial indexes, and not used by GDAL. The .shx file is
> basically a "shape id to file offset" index.
>
> Best regards,
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