[Mapserver-users] Error in TIGER to shp conversion !!!!

[Dharani Babu]

Daniel
Thanks for that . ur replies are helping me progress
I tried this way

ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm"
Then I got the following error
"Unable to open data source "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" with following drivers 
"
Then I removed the -skipfailures option and it said
"error on translating landmarks " " Attempt to translate non geometrical 
features " ...this is the same error I faced already . I think i am missing 
the way I have to use the -skipfailures option . So now I tried to translate 
all the layers one by one
So I tried this way
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" CompleteChain
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" AltNames
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" FeatureIds
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" ZipCodes
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" Polygon
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" IDHistory
etc
But I got the same errors when I tried to translate the following
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" landmarks
ogr2ogr -f -skipfailures "ESRI Shapefiles" "d:/maps/OpenEV/bin/shp" 
"c:/ms4w/apache/htdocs/data/rm" EntityNames
Whats wrong with the Landmarks , EntityNames layers ?
I also understand that the features with geometry ( Point ...line ) have 
*.shp files and the features without geometry have no .shp files at all . so 
I also understood the features with geo metry only can be added as MAP file 
LAYERS right ?  or am I missing something ?
Please correct me . help me why I am facing this error ...could u please 
show me any sample MAP Files that have used TIGER translated Shape files for 
rendering with template html ?

with regards and thanks in advance

dharani

>From: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca>
>To: Dharani Babu <dharanibabus at hotmail.com>
>CC: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Error in TIGER to shp conversion !!!!
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:06:49 -0500
>
>Dharani Babu wrote:
>>
>>here shp is the folder I want the translated shape files to be in . But I 
>>got the errors
>>
>>Error 6: Can't Create fields of type IntegerList on shapefil layers
>>Error 1 : Attempt to write feature without geometry not supported for 
>>shapefile driver
>>Error 1 : terminating translation prematurely after failed translation of 
>>layer Landmarks
>>I checked the /shp folder and found that the following files are in ..
>
>Did you try using the -skipfailures option?  With that option, if ogr2ogr 
>encounters a feature that the target format won't accept, then it just 
>skips it and moves on to the next instead of producing a fatal error.
>
>Note that you may have to check the TIGER docs to find out which layers 
>contain the data that you really need and just concentrate on them.
>
>Daniel
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>  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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