[GRASSLIST:464] RE: OGR-generated shapefiles show spikes and outl iers in ArcView

[Hamish]

> >> The shapefile is showing all kinds of weird spikes and horizontal
> >> lines that look like corrupted data, but of course the vectors look
> >>fine in Grass. Has anyone had any issues with shapefiles,
> >specifically >linework, From Grass?
> 
> >Have you tried to reimport back to GRASS?
> 
> I tried re-import and the vector looks fine again in Grass. It's
> strange, any shapefile I generate from Grass can be viewed in ArcView
> fine, ONLY if no editing has been performed, it seems. Once I delete
> line segments, add new ones, split lines up, etc., ArcView doesn't
> seem to like the shapefile after that. I'm going to try to do edits
> and see what conditions I can create that 'break' a shapefile from
> Arcview's point of view. 

Are you using a Mac? ie big-endian G5?
ArcView on a PC or VirtualPC?


Hamish