[gdal-dev] Issues with shapefiles with Z values?

Andrea Giudiceandrea andreaerdna at libero.it
Wed Oct 15 01:44:51 PDT 2025


Hi all,
I've also inspected the provided ESRI Shapefile layers and it seems to 
me they are perfectly compliant to the Shapefile technical description 
https://downloads.esri.com/support/whitepapers/mo_/shapefile.pdf for 
PointZ PolyLineZ Shapefile types and are correctly displayed even using 
ESRI ArcMap 9.3.1.

The ArcMap tool to validate the geometries and the ShapeChecker utility, 
recommanded by ESRI, didn't find any error in such layers.

David, what online utility have you used? I've uploaded 
driveway_points[.shp|.shx|.dbf] to 
https://www.litchiutilities.com/shapefileToCsv.php and while it 
generates 2 warning messages* it also nevertheless creates the requested 
CSV file.

Regards.

Andrea


* Warning: unpack(): Type d: not enough input, need 8, have 0 in 
/home/wesbarri/litchiutilities.com/php-shapefile-3.4.1/src/Shapefile/ShapefileReader.php 
on line 317
Warning: current() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in 
/home/wesbarri/litchiutilities.com/php-shapefile-3.4.1/src/Shapefile/ShapefileReader.php 
on line 317


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