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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Kader Irchad Barry <kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Jason took a look on my files and it appears actually that some .dbf files
> were corrupted. This could happen as he says when opening a .dbf file with
> Excel than saving it again with this software.
>
> I've been able to correctly run ogr2ogr command with new .dbf files taken
> from the source and generate the appropriate .gml files. It might be
> interesting for this task to get tools for checking integrity of
> shapefiles, any idea ?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Best regards,
> Kader
>
> 2014-09-26 21:31 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> You have to run the FWTools shell, not your ordinary command window.
>>
>> Once you have opened that, just go to c:\Simplification:
>>
>> > cd
>> > cd Simplification
>>
>> Rremove the previously generated file:
>>
>> >rm Communes.gml
>>
>> Now try again:
>>
>> > ogr2ogr -f GML Communes.gml Communes.shp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Kader Irchad Barry <kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes Knut,
>>>
>>> They are the same. Attached screenshot of directory and QGIS attribute
>>> table.
>>>
>>> Is it because I'm running the FWTool ogr2ogr from the FWTool directory
>>> whereas the shapefiles are in a different dir (see 3rd screenshot) ?
>>>
>>> 2014-09-26 19:24 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Are you sure the name of the .shp and .dbf files are exactly the same?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Kader Irchad Barry <
>>>> kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am following the 'Setting up GIS' chapter in order to add our
>>>>> country boundaries to DHIS2, but I am not getting in the converted GML
>>>>> files the names of the feature members as described in the manual.
>>>>>
>>>>> These info being stored in the .dbf files of the shapefiles structure,
>>>>> isn't there another step in order to merge them with the .shp files in
>>>>> order to have them described into the .gml files when using the conversion
>>>>> tool ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Below an excerpt of one gml file:
>>>>>
>>>>>  <gml:featureMember>
>>>>>     <ogr:communes fid="0">
>>>>>       <ogr:geometryProperty><gml:Polygon
>>>>> srsName="EPSG:4326"><gml:outerBoundaryIs><gml:LinearRing><gml:coordinates>44.520928,-12.21365
>>>>> 44.516667,-12.213444 44.515377,-12.217299 44.508177,-12.219482
>>>>> 44.48914,-12.219355 44.483688,-12.215721 44.474738,-12.211509
>>>>> 44.474765,-12.207788 44.486503,-12.198935 44.488153,-12.194262
>>>>> 44.492306,-12.191121 44.492686,-12.188164 44.490472,-12.187333
>>>>> 44.484528,-12.18125 44.47715,-12.175736 44.473761,-12.172392
>>>>> 44.469769,-12.165611 44.466832,-12.161886 44.497145,-12.154971
>>>>> 44.500402,-12.153843 44.503083,-12.159002 44.503082,-12.162418
>>>>> 44.507053,-12.171983 44.511,-12.176615 44.513624,-12.178458
>>>>> 44.515082,-12.184026 44.517226,-12.187109 44.519828,-12.192961
>>>>> 44.517851,-12.194513 44.520828,-12.197976 44.520943,-12.201551
>>>>> 44.519115,-12.204698 44.519313,-12.209046
>>>>> 44.520928,-12.21365</gml:coordinates></gml:LinearRing></gml:outerBoundaryIs></gml:Polygon></ogr:geometryProperty>
>>>>>     </ogr:communes>
>>>>>   </gml:featureMember>
>>>>>
>>>>> which shows no property holding the name of the feature members.
>>>>>
>>>>> What could be missing ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanking you in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Kader
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Knut Staring
>>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>>> +4791880522
>>>> Skype: knutstar
>>>> http://dhis2.org
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Knut Staring
>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>> +4791880522
>> Skype: knutstar
>> http://dhis2.org
>>
>
>


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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
Skype: knutstar
http://dhis2.org