[ncl-talk] Problem adding shapefile

[Rick Brownrigg]

Hi,

A couple of things:

i) where did you get your copy of NCL?  Shapefile support is optional,
although it is enabled in all binaries built by the NCL team.

ii) shape*file* is un unfortunate misnomer -- its really a collection of
3-6 files that work in tandem. Minimally for NCL, the xxxx.shp, xxxx.shx,
anbd xxxx.dbf files must be present in the same directory

iii) if you can send your shapefiles to me (you can directly email me),
I'll take a look

Rick

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 2:34 PM Soumik Basu via ncl-talk <ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to add a shapefile to a wrf contour map plot. For some reason
> I could not read the .shp file with ncl. I am attaching the code I am
> using. I have all of them in the same directory as the NCL code like it
> said in the shapefile examples. I downloaded the shapefiles for Canada from
> gadm.org website.
>
> Can anybody please tell me what am I doing wrong to read the shapefile.
>
> warning:_NclOpenFile: Can not open file <gadm36_CAN_3.shp>; file format
> not supported or file is corrupted
> (0) Error: gsn_add_shapefile_polylines: Can't open shapefile
> 'gadm36_CAN_3.shp'
> (0)       No shapefile information will be added.
> I can open the shapefile with QGIS so nothing is wrong with it most
> likely.
>
> Thanks,
> Soumik
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