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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, just use the shp and shx files from Mapshaper, not DBF. Just make a
copy of your original DBF and rename it to the same as the output from
Mapshaper.


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> To add to Brams mail, I have had issues with MapShaper and the DBF's it
> produces. Normally, I just trash these, and use the original DBF from the
> unmodified shapefile.
>
> I am still not convinced it is a problem with the DBF though, as clearly
> the projection which you provided in the first conversion was not correct.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Bram Piot <bram.piot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adedayo,
>>
>> If you need to modify attributes in the dbf file, you should only do this
>> in a GIS software such as www.qgis.org - never modify the dbf on its own
>> (eg in Excel) as this will result in a corrupt shapefile. It's also much
>> easier to define the projection or to convert to a different projection in
>> QGIS, and once you have your shapefile ready you can simply save it as a
>> gml file.
>>
>> bram
>>
>>
>> On 1 April 2014 17:47, Dayo Adeyomoye <deemoyes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>  Thanks a lot Jason. I also tried converting without first trying to
>>> convert to 4326 knowing that it may already be in that projection. I
>>> noticed later on that This conversion worked if i didn't use the original
>>> dbf file that I downloaded with it. I mean it converted when I used the dbf
>>> file generated after working on it at mapshaper.org.
>>>
>>> As soon as I changed the dbf file to the one downloaded from the
>>> shapefile site, it produced the error.
>>>
>>> The dbf file might be bad though. I have downloaded another from a new
>>> site and hopefully it will work.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Adedayo
>>>
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>>>   On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:19 PM, Jason Pickering <
>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>  Well, it seems pretty clear from the logs.
>>>
>>> Failed to process SRS definition: EPSG:14684
>>>
>>> Try looking here http://www.epsg-registry.org/
>>>
>>> and this is not a valid projection.
>>>
>>> However, looking from the bounding box, it looks like it may be 4326 to
>>> begin with.
>>>
>>> Why do you think you need to use  EPSG:14684  as the source projection?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Dayo Adeyomoye <deemoyes@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>  Dear All,
>>>
>>> I have been trying to convert my shapefile for Nigeria Admin0 and Admin1
>>> levels into GML but its not working. I was able to convert the Admin2 at
>>> but I am wondering, what could be the problem here.
>>>
>>> I also tried converting without copying the dbf file from the Admin file
>>> downloaded and it converted without errors but as soon as I tried to use it
>>> with the dbf file that i copied from the download admin file for Nigeria, I
>>> am unable to convert it.
>>>
>>> Below is the response while trying to do that.
>>>
>>>  Regards,
>>>
>>> Adedayo
>>>
>>> C:\Users\aadeyomoye\Desktop\Mine\DHIS2 Academy\NGA Admin1 Optimized
>>> Shapefile>og
>>> r2ogr -s_srs EPSG:14684 -t_srs EPSG:4326 -f GML NGA_adm1.gml NGA_adm1.shp
>>> ERROR 6: EPSG PCS/GCS code 14684 not found in EPSG support files.  Is
>>> this a val
>>> id
>>> EPSG coordinate system?
>>> Failed to process SRS definition: EPSG:14684
>>>
>>> C:\Users\aadeyomoye\Desktop\Mine\DHIS2 Academy\NGA Admin1 Optimized
>>> Shapefile>og
>>> rinfo -al -so NGA_adm1.shp
>>>  INFO: Open of `NGA_adm1.shp'
>>>       using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.
>>>
>>> Layer name: NGA_adm1
>>> Geometry: Polygon
>>> Feature Count: 38
>>> Extent: (2.668431, 4.270418) - (14.680070, 13.892010)
>>> Layer SRS WKT:
>>> (unknown)
>>> ID_0: Integer (9.0)
>>> ISO: String (3.0)
>>> NAME_0: String (75.0)
>>> ID_1: Integer (9.0)
>>> NAME_1: String (75.0)
>>> VARNAME_1: String (150.0)
>>> NL_NAME_1: String (50.0)
>>> HASC_1: String (15.0)
>>> CC_1: String (15.0)
>>> TYPE_1: String (50.0)
>>> ENGTYPE_1: String (50.0)
>>> VALIDFR_1: String (25.0)
>>> VALIDTO_1: String (25.0)
>>> REMARKS_1: String (125.0)
>>> Shape_Leng: Real (19.11)
>>> Shape_Area: Real (19.11)
>>>
>>>  C:\Users\aadeyomoye\Desktop\Mine\DHIS2 Academy\NGA Admin1 Optimized
>>> Shapefile>og
>>> r2ogr -f GML NGA_adm1.gml NGA_adm1.shp
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 101852 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 4872 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 7032 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 917484 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 7592 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 21800 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 41080 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 719100 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 5048 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 10424 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 4152 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 5352 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 4520 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 2728 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 2968 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 9160 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 11704 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 7112 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 13656 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 11976 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 12568 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 19960 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 44344 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 11288 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 18648 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 21624 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 62728 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 5256 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 11880 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 5864 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 965796 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 9544 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 19160 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 7384 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 8968 from .shp file
>>> ERROR 1: Error in fread() reading object of size 7592 from .shp file
>>>
>>> C:\Users\aadeyomoye\Desktop\Mine\DHIS2 Academy\NGA Admin1 Optimized
>>> Shapefile>og
>>> r2ogr -t_srs EPSG:4326 -f GML NGA_adm1.gml NGA_adm1.shp
>>> Can't transform coordinates, source layer has no
>>> coordinate system.  Use -s_srs to set one.
>>>
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Knut Staring
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