On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:09:45PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone point me to a python program that will generate > > a shapefile from scratch? > > > > Given an extent, projection, and set of lat/lng to place > > some markers or images, I would like a python (or c or c++) > > program to generate a shapefile for an overlay with > > mapserver/openlayers. I think ogr may be able to do this, > > and saw many examples of how to change existing shapefiles, > > but not to generate one from scratch. > > I found this page from Sean Gillies blog to be very helpful: > > http://sgillies.net/blog/16/graticule-hacking-with-ogr/ > > but you will need to play around a bit to modify it to handle points.
Thank you, but something is not right yet. I was able to compile mapserver and the python libraries so that the graticule program runs & produces nice png images. However, mapserv doesn't like the .shp and complains about msDBFgetItemIndex(): DBASE file error. Item 'location' not found. What is mapserver complaining about in the .shp file, and where is it looking for the location item? How do i add that to the .shp file? Thanks, Wendell _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
