[Community] vector shapefile not working

[Sean Gillies]

On Jan 26, 2006, at 4:11 AM, BALTUS Jean wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I’ve a primagis 0.5 installation on Debian. It works with the demo  
> world shape files and with some custom raster files.
>
>
> However when I’m using our own shapefiles, I’ve got the following  
> error in the ZCO Layer:
>
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>
> Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 101, in publish
>
> Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply
> Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 39, in call_object
> Module Products.PrimaGIS.PrimaGISMap, line 230, in view
> Module Products.ZCO.MapRenderer, line 193, in render
> Module cartography.engine.mapserver.rendering, line 127, in render
> Module cartography.engine.mapserver.rendering, line 852, in  
> _init_layer
> Module cartography.data.disk, line 120, in datatype
> Module ogr, line 504, in GetLayerByName
> OGRError: No layer on datasource
>
>
>
> I’ve created an ovf file using the shpconfig.py utility to add the  
> correct spatial reference.
>
>
> Do you know what’s wrong? Could it be that the shapefile is missing  
> information? If Yes How can I add them?
>
>
> The ogrinfo utility only displays:
>
> 1: filename (Line String)
>
> There is no info about the bounding box for instance…
>
>
> -- Jean

Is that the result of running ogrinfo against the shapefile? Can you  
show us the ovf file?

cheers,
Sean

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Sean Gillies
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