#7218 closed (invalid)
GIS: ogrinspect sometimes gets field types wrong
| Reported by: | Jeremy Dunck | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | GIS | Version: | gis |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ogr gdal shp shapefile geometry | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Using census state, a multipolygon field is reported as polygon; similarly, tnris streets reports linestring for multilinestring.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Component: | Uncategorized → GIS |
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| Keywords: | ogr gdal shp shapefile geometry added |
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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Marking this as invalid because it can't be fixed without scanning every feature in the shapefile. This is because the OGR driver can't differentiate between the formats:
"Note that when reading a Shapefile of type SHPT_ARC, the corresponding layer will be reported as of type wkbLineString, but depending on the number of parts of each geometry, the actual type of the geometry for each feature can be either OGRLineString or OGRMultiLineString. The same applies for SHPT_POLYGON shapefiles, reported as layers of type wkbPolygon, but depending on the number of parts of each geometry, the actual type can be either OGRPolygon or OGRMultiPolygon."
This is because the shapefile specification itself doesn't differentiate between
PolygonandMultiPolygon.