[mapserver-users] did something change in reading in empty TAB files?

[Daniel Morissette]

Bart,

The "Invalid Block Type" message comes from the MITAB driver in 
GDAL/OGR. GDAL 1.3.2 is quite old, is there any way you could switch to 
a more recent version of GDAL? Based on Jeff's tests this error doesn't 
seem to happen with MS 5.0.2/GDAL 1.5.0 ... it may also be that the 
problem is a side-effect of something that changed in MapServer (and 
would now be fixed in 5.0.x), but the first thing I'd suggest is using a 
newer GDAL.

Daniel


Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> at least starting Mapserver 4.10 (GDAL 1.3.2) there seems to be a 
> problem with reading empty MapInfo TAB files, whereas in the past (4.6 
> for sure) this used to work. Is this issue known to someone?
> 
> The error I get is:
> 
> 09-Jul-2008 18:08:23] PHP Warning:  [MapServer Error]: 
> msOGRFileNextShape(): InitBlockFromData(): Invalid Block Type: got 0 
> expected 2
> in 
> D:\ms4w\apps\stragisweb\htdocs\common\chameleon\htdocs\common\wrapper\drawmap.php 
> on line 533
> 
> An example TAB file can be found here:
> www.osgis.nl/download/mapserver/gemgrens.zip
> 
> Best regards,
> Bart
> 


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Daniel Morissette
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