[ncl-talk] shapefile problem

Setareh Rahimi setareh.rahimi at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 14:52:42 MDT 2019


Dear Rick,
Thanks for your guide and help. It works now.
Best wishes,

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 5:32 PM Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Its unfortunate that the term "shapefile" gets used, because a shapefile
> is actually a collection of 3 to 6 files that go hand-in-hand. Minimally,
> there must be 3 files with the same base name and ".shp", ".shx", and
> ".dbf" suffixes. I suspect you are missing the last two, and the error
> messages suggest as much (e.g., the reference to the  .SHX file). As just
> FYI, th eother files that may be present in the collection will contain
> other metadata, such as the cartographic projection, etc.
>
> Hope that helps...
> Rick
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 3:25 AM Setareh Rahimi via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I have tried to plot a region using shapefile. However, I faced an error,
>> which says shapefile cannot be opened. What would be the problem and how
>> can I sort it out. Please kindly help me.and, have a look at the attached
>> files, showing the script and shapefile I am using and the error.
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> --
>> S.Rahimi
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ncl-talk mailing list
>> ncl-talk at ucar.edu
>> List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:
>> http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-talk
>
>

-- 
S.Rahimi
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/attachments/20190807/683f1d65/attachment.html>


More information about the ncl-talk mailing list