Donnet , Sebastien wrote:
Hi,
sorry in advance if it's a stupid (or already well covered) question, but today I tried to read a shapefile coming from, I believe, ArcGIS 9.2 and run out into trouble: ERROR 4: Unable to open Bedrock.shx or Bedrock.SHX.
FAILURE:
Unable to open datasource `Bedrock.shp' with the following drivers.
instead of an shx I have an sbn and an sbx My version of ogr/gdal: from FWTools226.exe
(I'm on windows)
thanks in advance for any hints.

Sebastien,

OGR cannot currently read shapefiles without a .shx file.  The .sbn and
.sbx files are spatial indexes, and not used by GDAL. The .shx file is
basically a "shape id to file offset" index.

Best regards,
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