Hi,

I performed the OpenJump procedure.  But, I still get:

Macintosh-4:starspan_tests gregederer$ starspan2 --progress --RID none --vector afadmn2n.shp --fid 3 --raster rfe_2006_04_pct.tif --stats results.txt avg --out-prefix bar --out-type table
Number of features: 550
starspan_csv:   1: Extracting from rfe_2006_04_pct.tif
0% terminate called after throwing an instance of 'geos::util::TopologyException'
 what():  TopologyException: side location conflict -8.25 23.1536
Abort trap

I noticed running the above does create a file called bar_table.csv. Here are the first few lines of this file:

FID,AREA,PERIMETER,AFADMN2N_,AFADMN2N_I,CNT_ABB,ADMIN2,FEWSID,CNTRY_NAME,VALUE,DEK_,SEAS_START,col,row,x,y,Band1
0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,81,142,-12.050,25.950,99.041527 0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,82,142,-11.950,25.950,99.358971 0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,83,142,-11.850,25.950,99.358971 0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,84,142,-11.750,25.950,99.358971 0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,85,142,-11.650,25.950,98.070740 0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,86,142,-11.550,25.950,98.705505 0, 23.2300000000000004, 24.2429999999999986, 2, 2,MR,TIRIS ZEMMOUR,MR2TIRIS ZEMMOUR,Mauritania, 2,,1,87,142,-11.450,25.950,99.999992

I happen to know that TIRIS ZEMMOUR, Mauritania shares a boundary with ADRAR, Mauritania. The point, (-8.25, 23.1536), which appears in the TopologyException, lies on this boundary. Maybe it got through Tiris Zemmour OK, then hung on Adrar for some reason. Apparently, Tiris Zemmour has FID 0. Maybe Adrar has FID 1, and starspan is iterating over the FIDs sequentially. If these assumptions are correct, this would suggest a problem with the Adrar geometry.

So:

a) Is there some way to get a dump of FIDs with their corresponding country/province names?
b) What other steps might I take to detect/fix any side location conflict(s)
c) The docs on the starspan wiki are out of sync with the current version (1.2.03). Are there updated docs for starspan? Should I fall back to a previous version?

I greatly appreciate your help on this.

Best,

Greg

Brent Fraser wrote:
Greg,

OpenJump is a good topology/geometry fixing tool. Load your shapefile and do Tools->Generate->Buffer, set the Buffer distance to 0 to clean up the polygon vertices. I seem to recall it may have a problem preserving attributes when the results are saved as a shapefile, but you may be able to just use the new .shp portion with the old .dbf and .shx if the resulting geometry records are not re-ordered.

Brent



Greg Ederer wrote:
Brent,

My Google search didn't turn up much of use (most of the results were PostGIS-specific). Do you know of a tool that would tell me which feature(s) have problems? Do you know of a tool that might be able to fix these polygons?

Thanks!

Greg

Brent Fraser wrote:
Greg,

It means the GEOS topology library is having problems with geometry of your input shapefile. Most likely related to duplicate vertices (or near-duplicate) in a polygon. Do a Google for "side location conflict". It would be nice if it spat out the FID of the offending polygon...

Brent
Greg Ederer wrote:
Hi Brent,

Thanks for the example.  Here's what I got:

Macintosh-4:starspan_tests gregederer$ starspan2 --progress --RID none --vector /Users/gregederer/servers/geoserver_data/data/shapefiles/Admin/afadmn2n.shp --raster rfe_2006_04_pct.tif --stats results.txt avg
starspan: --out-prefix: ?
Type `starspan --help' for help

I then added a --out-prefix, like so:

Macintosh-4:starspan_tests gregederer$ starspan2 --progress --RID none --vector /Users/gregederer/servers/geoserver_data/data/shapefiles/Admin/afadmn2n.shp --raster rfe_2006_04_pct.tif --stats results.txt avg --out-prefix bar
starspan: --out-type: ?
Type `starspan --help' for help

I then added '--out-type table' (I found in the source that valid --out-types are: table, mini_raster_strip, mini_rasters, rasterization):

Macintosh-4:starspan_tests gregederer$ starspan2 --progress --RID none --vector /Users/gregederer/servers/geoserver_data/data/shapefiles/Admin/afadmn2n.shp --raster rfe_2006_04_pct.tif --stats results.txt avg --out-prefix bar --out-type table
Number of features: 550
starspan_csv:   1: Extracting from rfe_2006_04_pct.tif
0% terminate called after throwing an instance of 'geos::util::TopologyException'
 what():  TopologyException: side location conflict -8.25 23.1536
Abort trap

Any idea what the TopologyException indicates?

Thanks!

Greg

Brent Fraser wrote:
Greg,

I've used StarSpan to do similar things; in my case I wanted "mode" not "avg". Using v1.2.01 (I don't think I made major mods to the source):

starspan2.exe --progress --RID none --vector boundaries.shp --raster big.tif --stats results.txt mode

I edited the resulting results.txt text (csv) file and used GDAL's ogr2ogr to do a join on the shapefile's DBF file based on the FID.

Brent Fraser


Greg Ederer wrote:
Hello all,

I'm a GDAL newbie. I have a shape file containing subnational boundaries for Africa. I have a raster containing rainfall for Africa. I need to pull out the spatial average of rainfall for each of the subnational units.

I think that I might be able to pull this off using StarSpan. But, the docs on the StarSpan wiki do not line up with the current version of the program (the changelog mentions that certain command line switches have been eliminated, and others added; but it doesn't say what the new switches do, or how to use them). I am digging through the StarSpan sources to try to figure out how to use it.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might get the needed data using GDAL (with, or without StarSpan)?

Thanks!

Greg







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