[Qgis-user] Shape file points not appearing in 2.0.1

Daniel Kranich daniel at nusalaska.com
Tue Nov 19 16:51:29 PST 2013


Well It looks like I solved my own problem. I went in and found that 
there was a point with NULL in all the attribute fields, so I deleted 
that point and saved the file and everything shows up now.

Weird.

Daniel.
On 11/19/2013 3:25 PM, Daniel Kranich wrote:
> oops... I don't use mailing lists often so Its not surprising.
>
> I know that "Rangeview" does not have any attributes and the ID's are 
> null, but it was simply meant to be used for visual purposes on the 
> map and not meant to have any data associated with it.
>
> I will go ahead and file a bug report. In the mean time I guess I'm 
> stuck with 1.8 :(
>
> Daniel
> On 11/19/2013 1:16 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> It seems you answered only me personal and forgot to post this
>> information to the list.
>>
>> I can confirm the strange behaviour on both QGIS 2.0 and QGIS master.
>>
>> You should open a bug report.
>>
>> I can open both files in FME, but "Rangeview" does not contain any
>> attributes and all the ids are NULL values.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> Am 19.11.2013 21:56, schrieb Daniel Kranich:
>>> Well I have done a lot more troubleshooting. here is what I found:
>>> -It seems that it is only this particular shapefile.
>>> -I can see the points if I am zoomed out far enough, but as I zoom in,
>>> they disappear.
>>> -When zoomed out far enough to see them, I am unable to select them
>>> using the rectangle select tool
>>> -This is the case even if I load it into a new project.
>>> -If I select a specific point in the attribute table and hit the "zoom
>>> to selected rows" button, it seems to take me to the correct place,
>>> however the points don't appear.
>>> -There are a few points that actually DO appear.
>>> -ALL the points appear at ALL zoom levels in 1.8
>>> -I have tried messing with the "Scale Dependent Rendering" and that
>>> changes nothing.
>>>
>>> Here are some screenshots:
>>> The points on the far upper right are the ones I would like to
>>> see/manipulate: http://prntscr.com/25apve
>>> After zooming in: http://prntscr.com/25aqic
>>>
>>> Here is a link to download two shape files. "Water Nodes" is the one
>>> that is a problem. the "Rangeview" shape file is there as reference for
>>> the general area where some of the Water Nodes should be appearing. 
>>> Both
>>> are set to EPSG:26934 - NAD83 / Alaska zone 4 coordinate system:
>>> http://www.mediafire.com/download/l8nhd1xzmg3v6z2/WaterNodes.zip
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help
>>>
>>> On 11/19/2013 11:23 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> Can you share this particular shapefile and the corresponding qml that
>>>> shows the problem?
>>>>
>>>> Did you try to load it into a fresh project, not re-using the old
>>>> project? Can you load into an empty project?
>>>>
>>>> Andreas
>>>>
>>>> Am 19.11.2013 19:02, schrieb Daniel Kranich:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been using Qgis for about a year and a half now. I just 
>>>>> upgraded
>>>>> from 1.8 to 2.0 and have run into an issue with one of my shape 
>>>>> files.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a shape file that is a point layer which has been working fine
>>>>> and displaying fine in 1.8. When I open the layer in 2.0.1, The 
>>>>> symbols
>>>>> no longer appear on the map. The attribute table still has all the 
>>>>> data,
>>>>> and If I select one and pan the map to that selection, It zooms in to
>>>>> where that particular point should be but the point is not visible on
>>>>> the map.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have checked out the symbology and there is no reason for the 
>>>>> points
>>>>> to not show up (checked transparency/size etc). I also tried removing
>>>>> the layer, and re-adding it and the same problem occurs. I have also
>>>>> double checked that it is the top layer and should be rendered on 
>>>>> top of
>>>>> everything else, and I double checked the Coordinate system. 
>>>>> Somehow the
>>>>> points are there, and when you go to a specific point, it takes 
>>>>> you to
>>>>> the right place, but the point just isn't appearing on the map.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone else encountered a problem similar to this? I searched 
>>>>> a bit
>>>>> through the bug tracker, but found nothing. Im also planning on 
>>>>> moving
>>>>> all our data over to a PostGIS database and hopefully this might 
>>>>> fix the
>>>>> problem, but until then I would really rather use 2.0 instead of 1.8.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
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