[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53422] [octave forge] (mapping) Corrupt output when writing polygons to shapefile with shapewrite

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #53422 (project octave):

                  Status:               Confirmed => In Progress            

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Follow-up Comment #9:

A progress report:

Upon close inspection, shapewrite's code for "Point" geometries; AFAICS
conforms exactly to the specs in
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf.
Indeed, I found that the utility program shapechk.exe [*] rather screws up the
.shx file.

However, along the way I fixed a bug in dbfwrite.m (io package), it prepended
a space to text attributes.
I also adapted shapewrite.m to always write a .dbf file.

As to your remark in comment #4 that shaperead.m produces a different struct
than you wrote with shapewrite.m:
Note that the Point geometry has no BoundingBox field - it isn't in the specs,
see URL above.

With these changes I'll try again with ArcGIS.

[*]
https://allaroundgis.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/shapefile-shp-shape-checker-v3-2/

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