• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

SBuilderX can not read this Shapefile!

benclark

benclark

Messages
51
Country
canada
The title says it all. I've exported a shapefile containing new coastlines for tile HLX3315 but upon trying to import the shapefile in to SBuilderX I get this error. Can anyone suggest why? I've never had trouble before.

Edit - I've attached the shapefile.
 

Attachments

Hi,
not sure but I think SBX only read WGS84 format data.
Yours does not seem to be.
Cheers
 
Try this:

Code: 
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" HLX3315a.shp HLX3315.shp -t_srs EPSG:4326

yields a properly reprojected shapefile named HLX3315a.shp

Dick
 
Last edited:
Hey Dick so I'm guessing I need ogr2ogr, the GUI version didn't work properly so where would I find the commandline version that I can enter your exact string in to?
 
Well I got it all installed, ran the above line in the command prompt and got an Error 4 first of all so I moved the gcs.csv file to the same directory as ogr2ogr and ran it again and got an "Error 6: EPSG PCS/GCS code 4326 not found in EPSG support files. Is this a valid EPSG coordinate system? Failed to process SRS definition: EPSG:4326" message. Any ideas?
 
Hi,

EPSG 4326 is just the normal geodetic wgs84. So it sounds like some data files for QGIS are not correct and therefore it is complaining.
 
Well I tried something different in the meantime which was to see how the data looked in Microdem, opening it up threw me a lat/long error, odd since the data was in Geographic lat/long format, so it made me wonder. I converted the data to UTM and then straight back to Geographic lat/long and what do you know, works perfectly!

Needless to say pretty happy I got that sorted, still not sure what happened since nothing changed in my processes. Oh well now to figure out what to do with the rivers and lakes. Making my own shoreline for the CDED data is easy enough but the NHN does not align correctly with the CDED data. Talking to the Geobase team it seems that it's a known issue and I've been recommended to use the alternate CDSM data set but that is essentially a resampled SRTM data set which is hardly therefore the best choice. Better will be figuring out whether the rivers/lakes are in error or if the dem data is in error regarding its global position. Hopefully the former as the latter is going to mean a huge amount of reworking! Now I know why no other DEM's come with the rivers/lakes/etc included!

Thanks for all the help guys!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top