[gdal-dev] problem reading arc from shapefile with OGR

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Bruce,

OGR doesn't support all the Shape Types. Curved line segments show up as
straight line segments. Could this be the case?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Clay, Bruce <bclay at ball.com> wrote:

>  I created a shapefile in ArcMap with 5 objects.  The first two are really
> a collection of many line strings that I copied from a Census Tigerline file
> and the other three I created using the ArcMap editor arc tool.  The
> attached file shows what the shapes look like.
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> I can read the two smaller objects using OGR without any problem.  They
> have reasonable point counts and the X/Y data from the ones I looked at in
> the debugger look valid.
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> I can not get to the point data in the larger three shapes.  The geometry
> type shows up as linestrings but the point counts are way to low (i.e 28, 10
> and 3).
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> I tried to cast them into OGRCurve, OGRMultiLineString, GeometryCollection
> and a few more I think but none of them worked.
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> Is there some special way to read data like this?
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> Bruce
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