Comments on: Fixing Corrupt Shapefiles http://freegeographytools.com/2009/fixing-corrupt-shapefiles Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:10:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mnweni http://freegeographytools.com/2009/fixing-corrupt-shapefiles/comment-page-1#comment-1396 Mnweni Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:26:42 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=3228#comment-1396 In AV 3.2 opening a shp file that was not closed on exit gave an error 'Incorrect shape type'. The Fix worked perfectly, with no apparent damamge to the features or the attribute data In AV 3.2 opening a shp file that was not closed on exit gave an error ‘Incorrect shape type’. The Fix worked perfectly, with no apparent damamge to the features or the attribute data

]]> By: Tomas IV. http://freegeographytools.com/2009/fixing-corrupt-shapefiles/comment-page-1#comment-1395 Tomas IV. Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:21:53 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=3228#comment-1395 Hi, I would add, that the ogr2ogr command (or any other format translation tool) can be useful also if you have issues with text encoding of shapefile attribute data stored in .dbf file acompanying the .shp. Quite common problem for us in countries using extended character sets. Many free tools to translate encodings could not properly handle .dbf files or lack support for needed encodings. It is possible to get around this by converting the shapefile (to .gml for example), translate encoding of this file and then convert it back to shapefile. Hi,
I would add, that the ogr2ogr command (or any other format translation tool) can be useful also if you have issues with text encoding of shapefile attribute data stored in .dbf file acompanying the .shp.
Quite common problem for us in countries using extended character sets. Many free tools to translate encodings could not properly handle .dbf files or lack support for needed encodings.
It is possible to get around this by converting the shapefile (to .gml for example), translate encoding of this file and then convert it back to shapefile.

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