Problems importing shapefile

[Luiz Menini]

Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on the extremely versatile and useful program.

I would like to ask a question. I can not import shapefiles, not even the sample files that are available in the 'data' folder.

Some messages, such as these ('Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at C: /berrybrew/5.26.2_64_PDL/perl/lib/Carp.pm line 324, <$ fh> line 2' or 'Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at Biodiverse/Common.pm line 1885') appear and the file does not load.

Any idea what might be happening?

Thank you for your attention.

Luiz.

[Shawn Laffan]

Hello Luiz,

This sounds like it could be a bug with the program, or one of the libraries it uses. 

Which version are you using?  And which operating system? 

And would you be able to send me a copy of the shapefile you are using?  A subset would be sufficient. 


Regards,
Shawn.

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[Dan Rosauer]

Just speculating, but perhaps an issue with accented characters in the file path??

Some of my Portuguese students had that problem.

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[Shawn Laffan]

Thanks Dan.

If so then it as another manifestation of issue #272:  https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/issues/272

Luiz - if you have an accented character in the file name then could you try renaming or copying the shapefile so it has no such characters?  If that version works then it will be due to issue #272.

We have a warning in place for delimited text files when this happens, but it has not yet been applied for other formats.

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Shawn.

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[Luiz Menini]

Thank you for the fast answers.

I am using the version 2.1 of the software Biodiverse. My operating system is Windows 10.

The first error is a message when I used the shapefiles provided with the Biodiverse, coastline_lamberts.shp and Example_site_data.shp. The second message is from the attached shapefile.

Indeed I received a message regarding the Portuguese accented words. But I changed the name of the attached file (mant) and the second message appears.

Thanks again.

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[Shawn Laffan]

I just tested with the current development version, and I could reproduce the error when I left the format option as text. 

The system is not clever enough to detect file types from names or contents, so if you tell it that a file is delimited text then it will try to open it as text. 

Could you please retry, ensuring the format is set to shapefile?  See the screenshot below.  If you do this then you should not need to list files of all types to see the shp file.

If that does not work then I will do more digging, as the internal shapefile handling has changed substantially since version 2.1. 

Regards,
Shawn.

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[Luiz Menini]

I did not notice this Format field...

But, another error message is shown.

Is it correct? Polygon shapefiles are not supported?

Thank you for your support!

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[Shawn Laffan]

...and now I look at the shapefile I see it is a polygon. 

Version 2.1 can only import data of type point.  You need to use the development version to import polygons. 

https://github.com/shawnlaffan/biodiverse/wiki/Downloads#development-release

See also (if you have not already) http://biodiverse-analysis-software.blogspot.com/2018/12/import-polygon-and-polyline-data.html

Regards,
Shawn.

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[Shawn Laffan]

It seems our emails passed each other in transit...

As per my other email, you need the development version to import polygons (until version 3 is released). 

Link for purposes of posterity:  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/biodiverse-users/xodR78gJiq0/idqk8p65AwAJ

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