[gdal-dev] Fwd: Gdal - multipolygon - geometry errors instead holes

[Marco]

Hi,

Validity checks don't check the file format. They check the validity of 
the geometries once they are read from the file into the software.

The shape file format is a partly documented format. It is very easy to 
write a shape file which is not according to the specs. To my experience 
ESRI software will do that every now and again. Very probably you have 
one of those shape files.

You might ask the person who created the files to:
- buffer the geometries with a distance of 0 and the save the resulting 
file again.
- and/or export to a different file format (eg geopackage)

Regards, MArco

On 29-10-19 09:19, Casper Børgesen wrote:
>
> Hi Pepa
>
> I have tried loading and exporting the multipolygons as WKT using 
> OGR/python and it looks like the holes are interpreted as polygons.
>
> FME displays the data (correctly?) with holes and its validation 
> engine doesn’t find any errors. BUT a year ago I sent a bug report to 
> SAFE because FME did some automatic geometry repair when loading data 
> => the various programs could be fixing issues automatic which means 
> you won’t see them. Not to imply that ESRI does automatic geometry 
> repair in the background, but which program can you definitely trust 
> to correctly represent the contents of your data set?
>
> I tend to trust GDAL/OGR (which means I also trust QGIS) because its 
> open source and the developers are normally pretty good at reporting 
> back how the software treats data.
>
> My reply doesn’t fix your problem though, just a few thoughts from me.
>
> Regards, Casper
>
> *From:*gdal-dev <gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> *On Behalf Of *Pepa 
> Beneš
> *Sent:* 29. oktober 2019 08:10
> *To:* gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [gdal-dev] Fwd: Gdal - multipolygon - geometry errors 
> instead holes
>
> HI,
>
> I recieved one shapefile. Gdal / Grass / QGIS finds two geometry 
> errors in it. Other GIS SW (ArcMap, MapInfo (via Universal translator 
> or opening shp natively)) theay can't see this geometries as errors. 
> Instead errors they can see regular multipolygons with holes there. 
> Author of this shp wants to see holes there too = in his opinion there 
> are correct data only.
>
> Please, write me, how to work with such geometries in gdal / grass / 
> QGIS / geos world to see holes too, instead errors?
>
> In geometry_problem.zip 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRJQVKYDkZji-GLmobov995m9vF00vwf> 
> there are:
>
> geometry_problem.qgz .. vizualization in QGIS
>
> original.shp .. original data prepared in ESRI
> original_esri.png .. original.shp seen in ArcMap (With holes. Author 
> of shp wants have holes there.)
>
> original_errors.shp .. geometry errors prepared by "QGIS Desktop 3.8.3 
> with GRASS 7.6.1"
> original_qgis.png .. original.shp seen in QGIS
>
> MI/original_to_MI_by_UN.tab .. original.shp translated from shp to tab 
> by MapInfo - UniversalTranslator (tried defferent versions with the 
> same results).
>
> Thanks
>
> Pepa Beneš
>
>
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