[Openspace] Problems with .gal files

[Julia Koschinsky]

Soma,

It might be fastest to simply create a new weights matrix in 
GeoDa since it only takes a few seconds. 

In GeoDa, go to Tools-Weights-Create, specify your input and 
output file names, select a unique ID (e.g. FIPS code), 
choose your type of weight (contiguity/distance/k-nearest 
neighbor) and choose "Create." You can then look at the 
weights characteristics of your matrix to make sure 
everything is as expected.

Julia


>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: soma ghosh <sghosh76 at yahoo.com>  
>>Subject: [Openspace] Problems with .gal files  
>>To: openspace at agec221.agecon.uiuc.edu
>>
>>Hi,
>>I had downloaded the .gal & .gwt files for 
>>US counties from the Weights Archive at SAL. But when
>>I'm trying to open them using GeoDa, I keep getting a
>>message that says "the dbf file in the 1st line of
>>your gal file doesn't exist!" I have also checked the
>>gal file by opening it in Notepad & everything seems
>>o.k.
>>What does this message mean?
>>Is there any way to correct this?
>>
>>Thanks,