[Openspace] Shapefile mystery

[Ibnu Syabri]

Shapefile mysteryHi,
Most of the time if you can succesfully open the shape file with ArcView, it should not be 
a problem with Geoda, but if it is not the case,  we suggest you to check on several things.

First,  I suggest you to put alltogether of your files in one directory, and make sure
the directory should not be write-protected. Second, make sure you have a unique 
identifier in your tabel. The data type of that ID can be character  or numeric. 
For numeric ID, the accepted length of the numeric value can't be longer than 
9 digit numbers. Next,  Geoda can't deal with a table that:
 - has more than 255 varibales/columns and
 - has colomns with boolean data type
 - has colomns with very long width (i.e comments, images).

If this doesn't solve the problem, If you don't mind, you can send me the data files and
I'll take a look.

best wishes,
Ibnu

 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Garb, Jane 
  To: Openspace List Serve (openspace at sal.agecon.uiuc.edu.) 
  Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:51 AM
  Subject: [Openspace] Shapefile mystery


  I am a relatively new user to Geoda, having been introduced to it in a course by Dr. Anselin.  When I go to open a shape file, some files I try to open will cause the program to freeze, while others open just fine.  These are all polygon ESRI shape files, so I'm not sure why the program is having a problem with them.  And I can't figure out what's different about the files that are successfully opened and those that aren't.  Any clues?

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