WIP-pyshapelib-Unicode issues

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Monday 14 January 2008 12:36, Bram de Greve wrote:
> I've looked a bit further into it and I've found the conclusive paragraph
> in the specs on page 5:
>
> "If the shapefile is empty (that is, has no records), the values for Xmin,
> Ymin, Xmax and Ymax are unspecified."

Hmm there are reconrd in the shapefile,
there is only one record without geometry.
Check the link to an example shapefile in the reported issue.

> To me, that implies that they are valid.
>
> Also, there's something like null shapes, without geometric data.  Each
> shapefile type supports null shapes, so you can have points and nulls in
> one file.  But not points and lines ...

The above paragraph seems to be too short for me to fully understand.
If it is okay to not have geographic data in a shapeobject, I guess the 
example shapefile would be legitimate.


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