[gdal-dev] Converting a .dat(X-Plane) file to a shapefile

[Peter Mallen]

I tried removing the leading anti-slash as well as adding "c:" to the path and the same error message was received for both instances.

I was able to convert the other.dat files from the downloaded data to shapefiles but for some reason the apt.dat file is not working.



-----Original Message-----
From: Even Rouault [mailto:even.rouault at mines-paris.org] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:00 PM
To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Cc: Peter Mallen; Kyle Shannon
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Converting a .dat(X-Plane) file to a shapefile

Le jeudi 23 août 2012 20:57:19, Peter Mallen a écrit :
> Hi Klye,
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> The errors received are below:
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> FAILURE:
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> Unable to open datasource '\APTNav201107XP900\apt.dat' with the 
> following drivers.

Ah, this is just that the input filename is likely incorrect. Perhaps try removing the leading anti-slash, or if the APTNav201107XP900 directory is just at the root of the C drive, use "c:\APTNav201107XP900\apt.dat" instead.