On 7/21/2011 3:23 AM, Ben Madin wrote:
G'dat all,
We have a client (potential client) who wants some mapping done and
the maps returned in shapefile format. In the contract they insist on
specifying that the shapefiles are compatible with "ESRI's ArcView
version 9" (their words, not mine).
I don't have "ESRI's ArcView version 9", and don't intend on spending
that sort of money (more than the contract is worth). However, I'm
sure that if what we send back doesn't open in "ESRI's ArcView
version 9" it will become our problem.
Does anyone have any reason to suspect that a shapefile created using
valid OGC geometry in PostGIS and exported using pgsql2shp would not
or might not work on "ESRI's ArcView version 9"?
Are there any issues that someone who is across platforms can help me
with?
(I routinely use shapefiles created using valid OGC geometry in
PostGIS and exported using pgsql2shp in QGIS and MapServer and send
them to other people, so I have no reason to be concerned except that
the client insists on this line remaining the contract!)
Hi Ben,
I use ArcGIS Explorer and it will not open shapefiles that do not have
.prj file. What I do in this case if to just write a script that
generates that appropriate .prj that I need. The other option that might
be work better for you is to use ogr2ogr to export the postgis table
into a shapefile as I believe that will write the .prj file appropriately.
-Steve W
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