[udig-users] uDig 1.1.SC1 and unrecognized shapefile

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay so about the shapefile that had problems; can you give me more 
info? What website is it from ... and what language is your computer 
running?
As I said the handling of charsets has changed; and I am trying to 
figure out if it is responsible for the problem you are seeing.

In the meantime can you try the following:
- http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/uDig-1.1-SC2/

Jody
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Ann-Marie Watt wrote:
> Sorry...  I didn't see your other questions in the text!  
>
> The one that worked is Release 1.1-RC 14 for Mac OSX (x86 Installer). 
>  The one that didn't work for me was Release 1.1-SC1 for Mac OSX (x86 
> Installer).  
>
> I really appreciate your help!
>
> AM
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Jody Garnett 
> <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Ann-Marie Watt wrote:
>
>         Hey Jody!
>
>         Thanks for getting back to me.  I think the error message was
>         the result of an unstable uDig version.  I downloaded an
>         earlier one and didn't have any problems.
>
>     That is good information - which version did you have a problem
>     with? We recently tried adding "charset" support to shapefiles
>     (for working with some Korean datasets) - it is very important to
>     me to know if that is causing any problems or not.
>
>         In ArcView (from what I remember), there is a common ID column
>         between the .xls files and the .dbf for the shapefile.  You
>         make the links and that's it.  I might be a little off - my
>         ArcView is rusty!  But, I just remember dropping them in.  I
>         will have to look in some old texts...
>
>     The "Reshape" operation is very good at manipulating data in uDig
>     (it is covered in the walkthrough 2 a little bit; and also in the
>     online help). We may be able to make a function that reads in a
>     excel file; and allows you to look up values based on a common ID.
>
>     So I would end up with something like (where THE_GEOM, NAME and
>     COUNTRY_CODE are attributes in the shapefile; and the data.csv has
>     CODE and POPULATION columns):
>     THE_GEOM=THE_GEOM
>     NAME=NAME
>     COUNTRY_CODE=COUNTRY_CODE
>     POPULATION=join( COUNTRY_CODE, "C:\data\data.csv", "CODE",
>     "POPULATION", );
>
>     Something to think about;
>     Jody