[mapserver-users] Shapefiles - different formats?

[Ed McNierney]

Janet -

I certainly expect 8.1 reads 3.2 shapefiles (at least, in general).
Perhaps it's more likely that you're creating a slightly out-of-spec
shapefile that's being tolerated by 3.2, but 8.1 is being fussier about.

There's a tool called shpfix in the GDAL distribution that might
possibly help clean up the file.  If you'd like to email me the
shapefile I'll take a look at it.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242


-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Ciavarelli [mailto:Jciavarelli at city.kamloops.bc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 2:17 PM
To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; teb at mallit.fr.umn.edu
Subject: [mapserver-users] Shapefiles - different formats?


Sort of off topic, but thought I'd ask anyways in case anyone knows. I
have written a perl/mapscript to create a shapefile. I can view the
shapefile in ESRI  ArcView 3.2 fine. But when I try to view it in ESRI
ArcView 8.1, I get an error. Is anyone out there aware of any
differences between shapefile formats between different products?

Janet.

 

Janet Ciavarelli
GIS Programmer/Analyst
City of Kamloops, BC
(250) 828-3393
jciavarelli at city.kamloops.bc.ca