<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV><SPAN style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; DISPLAY: inline !important; FONT: 13px arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; FLOAT: none; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">I'm using Win 7 64 bit QGIS vsn 1.7.3. I am able to create my own polygon layer on top of Tiger Files for Los Angeles County and create spatial indices for both layers. However, when I downloaded the Orange County, CA tiger files, created a layer .. I am unable to successfully create an index and get the infamous message "Creation of spatial index failed".</SPAN>
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<DIV style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 13px arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(34,34,34); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Not sure where I can go to get any more detail information other than the message. Does anyone have some tips?</DIV>
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