Hi Mapnik-users,
On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote: >>> The summary is that just as Jon notes, the shapefile dbf has bogus/ >>> null characters perhaps due to creation from geoserver/geotools. >> >> I found a description of the dbf file format which agrees that the >> field >> should have spaces:[1] >> >> F - Float: Number stored as a string, right justified, and padded >> with >> blanks to the width of the field.. >> ... the .DBF file contains blanks (0x20). >> > Just a follow-up/correction. The original source of this shapefile was ESRI and it was fetched and first used in the Geoserver project over 6 years ago. So, it is very unlikely the problems with the dbf relate to any processing by geotools. Cheers, Dane _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
