[Qgis-developer] Issue saving shapefiles with REAL15 values

[Anita Graser]

Am 22.02.2011, 13:19 Uhr, schrieb Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:

> Il giorno mar, 22/02/2011 alle 13.16 +0100, Anita Graser ha scritto:
>> I have a shapefile containing fields of type REAL15. I'd like to cut an
>> area of interest out of this shapefile using QGIS "Save as ..."  
>> function.
>> The resulting shapefile still has fields of type REAL15 but the  
>> contained
>> values are botched, e.g. 10400000603695 becomes -2147483648.
>
>> I'm uncertain whether the problem lies with GDAL or QGIS' use of GDAL.
>
> Which versions?

OSGeo4W r15203 with GDAL 1.8.0

>
>> It would be great if this problem could be resolved. Unfortunately, I
>> can't share the original (commercial) dataset.
>
> You can extract just one record, and share that one.

How? If I use QGIS, the values will be broken.

Best wishes,

Anita