[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] QGIS creating defective shape-files?

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Wed Jul 22 20:59:00 PDT 2009


Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> This sounds like a corrupted spatial index file. Can we have a look at
> the shapefile that doesn't work well in ArcGIS?
> 
> SpatiaLite or not, shapefiles _should_ work correctly everywhere. Otherwise you're cutting out lots
> of users.
> 
Spatialite now offers a side tool to help fix problem shapefiles and it
might be able to recreate your spatial index.
I think it's called shp doctor
http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/binaries.html
It's in the spatialite-tools section.

Alex



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