[mapserver-users] PointZ

[Daniel Morissette]

"Lowther, David W" wrote:
> 
> I've seen a couple of things in the archives and in practice letting me know
> that mapserver doesn't like shapefiles with z (i.e. PointZ) but nothing
> explaining why... It's easy enough to work around, but I was just curious.
> Why doesn't mapserver like these shapefiles?
> 


It's simply because MapServer uses a version of shapelib that doesn't
support the shapefile with z values.  Note that you could read those
files today using an OGR CONNECTION since OGR comes with the latest
version of shapelib which supports the shapefiles with Z values.

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