[gdal-dev] Re: ESRI arcgis 9.x

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam <at> pobox.com> writes:


> 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.

OpenJUMP can read features from just a lonely .shp file , and then save the full
package with .dbf and .shx.  That has helped me sometimes.

-Jukka Rahkonen-