Re: Shapefile Example Not Working

Hi Brad,

When you downloaded the "st_str.tar.gz" file, did you gunzip and
untar the file first:

    gunzip sa_str.tar.gz
    tar -xf sa_str.tar

Once you do this, you will see the following files:

sa.readme sa_str.prj sa_str.shp.xml
sa_str.dbf sa_str.shp sa_str.shx

and you should now be able to run that example.

--Mary

On Apr 19, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Illston, Bradley G. wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have been trying to get shapefiles to load into NCL and have been
> unsuccessful. I decided to just try and duplicate on of the
> examples you have on the website.
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/shapefiles_3.ncl
>
> I am using that script unaltered and I have downloaded/gunzip/
> untarred the shapefile data from the given website. When I run the
> script, I get the following output:
>
> Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> fatal:An internal error has occurred. The file format requested
> does not appear to be supported, could not open (sa_str.shp)
> fatal:Either file (f) isn't defined or variable (segments) is not a
> variable in the file
> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 37 in file
> ncl_Shapefile.ncl
>
> As you can see, I am running NCL v5.1.1, which chould support
> shapefiles. I am running the following system:
>
> "Linux {server name} 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:56:28 EST
> 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"
>
> Can you provide any guidance on how to open a basic shapefile and
> overlay that onto my plotted data?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad Illston
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