Problems parsing some ArcGIS shapefiles

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Author Name: matter - (matter -)
Original Redmine Issue: 1693

Assignee: nobody -

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Compatibility or parsing problems have been noted with shapefiles made or exported from Arc 9.x, resulting in a "xxxxxxx.shp is not a valid or recognized data source" dialogue. The shapefiles work in Arc, so this may be easily solved by allowing for some tolerance in the OGR library? "Example shapefiles can be downloaded here.":https://74.220.215.88/~mattrosa/qGIS/EagleStreams.zip

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Author Name: matter - (matter -)

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Replying to "matter":/issues/show/1693:

Compatibility or parsing problems have been noted with shapefiles made or exported from Arc 9.x, resulting in a "xxxxxxx.shp is not a valid or recognized data source" dialogue. The shapefiles work in Arc, so this may be easily solved by allowing for some tolerance in the OGR library? "Example shapefiles can be downloaded here.":https://74.220.215.88/~mattrosa/qGIS/EagleStreams.zip

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Author Name: Frank Warmerdam - (Frank Warmerdam -)

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The [[EagleStreams]].zip file does not contain 1_10K_EagleBasemap_Streams.shx. The OGR Shapefile driver (and shapelib) require the .shx file to exist though in theory this requirement could be relaxed.

I don't think this is really a qgis problem, and if desired it should be refiled as an enhancement request to OGR or possibly to Shapelib itself.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Matter, please submit it to OGR

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• resolution was changed from to wontfix
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed