[FWTools] OGR Shapefile Creation Issue

Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 23:02:26 EST 2011


Hi,

Can you run ogr2ogr on the shapefile and check if there is any change in the
extents of the new file?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:15 AM, <jkenneally at cartenav.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> I'm just tossing this out there to see if anyone else has had issues with
> shapefiles generated through OGR not reflecting their true extents on load.
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> I've got a situation where I am creating a 1 degree x 1 degree shapefile
> through code from scratch, containing lines.  When I'm done adding features
> I destroy the data source, then reload it, checking its extents.  Even
> though the data is all there (I can view the file in a 3rd party mapping
> tool), the extents being reported back to me through OGR are cut off along
> the latitude.
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> Has anyone else seen this behavior?
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> Thanks!
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