[postgis-users] Unable to convert shapefile layer to postgis layer

[Jonathan Aguero]

The M geometries are actually there, the problem is that the clients (Qgis
and Udig) can not display them (AFAIK). I was working with some polinesM
recently and I keep two geometries, one with the M's for the analysis and
one without the M's for display (using force_2d function to convert them).
So you actually converted the layer, just cannot display it, but everything
else should work.

 

Jonathan Aguero Valverde

Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate

Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania Transportation Institute

201 Transportation Research Building

University Park, PA 16802

www.personal.psu.edu/jua130

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Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Unable to convert shapefile layer to postgis
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st_force_2d() - does this mean i must change my shape field from PolgonM to
Polygon, I have done that using ET Geowizard in ArcGIS and able to view the
features.

On 19/07/07, Michael Fuhr <mike at fuhr.org> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:50:19AM +0200, Intengu Technologies wrote: 
> Using shp2pgsql to convert a shapefile to postgis, creates the table (can
> view using pgadmin) but cannot view the feature in udig. Here is my syntax
> at the prompt: shp2pgsql.exe -s 4148  mypath \allotment_el.shp allotmentel
| 
> psql database - U myname
> Having pressed  enter for password this comes up
>
> Shapefile type: PolygonM
> Postgis type: Multipolygonm[3]
> Password for user myname:
>
> shp2pgsql executes and creates the table. 

Does uDig support 3-dimensional geometries?  I couldn't view your
original geometry with uDig or QGIS but I was able to view a
2-dimensional version returned by st_force_2d().

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