GPX to Shapefile: DBF File missing

[Gregor Horvath-3]

Hello,

if I do:

$ gpsbabel -tw -i gpx -f test.gpx  -o shape -F testbabel

the testbabel.dbf is not created:

$ ls testbabel.*
testbabel.shp  testbabel.shx

I want to import into a PostGis DB, but does not work because of this:

$ shp2pgsql testbabel
testbabel: dbf file (.dbf) can not be opened.

The tool gpx2shp creates all files with the same test.gpx, but lacks
other import formats that gpsbabel supports.

Any Hints?

Is there a better way to import GPX (or other formats) to a PostGIS DB?

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Greg
                                     

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[Robert Lipe-4]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Gregor Horvath <greglist@...> wrote:

Hello,

if I do:

$ gpsbabel -tw -i gpx -f test.gpx  -o shape -F testbabel

the testbabel.dbf is not created:

We don't write the optional dbf  because in most cases we don't know enough about the meta data to generate a sensible one.

We could perhaps write a skeleton one just listing the types of fields we write, but we don't.   If you have some reader that absolutely requires it, perhaps pulling into a GIS-oriented tool like the Pro/EC editions of Earth or ArcGIS or GDAL and writing it back out will add it.

If you can quantify what you want and you know it's data we can derive from a general purpose format like GPX and you want a contract quote for adding it, drop me a line privately.

RJL

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