[dhilton]

It’s not so much a geodjango issue as it is a PostGIS / property issue. The django app uses a specfic mapping of shapefile properties to internal database columns; change the fields and the db schema and it will load the data fine. The problem comes when you try and use the data in a meaningful way. I’ve used ogrinfo and qGis to inspect the properties of the shapefile but can’t seem to find much to help me. At the moment the app loads all of the counties but they’re not within their countries nor have their administrative names attached to them. Any ideas or pointers about where I can learn more about this so I can help?

[dhilton]

I tried using the amended data but to no avail.

I got the following error on django 1.1.1:

./manage.py ne_import_countries ./data/10m_admin_1_version1b1.shp

Datasource has 1 layers

Importing Layer 10m_admin_1_version1b1 of type Polygon, size: 3786

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "./manage.py", line 16, in <module>

execute_manager(settings)

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 362, in execute_manager

utility.execute()

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 303, in execute

self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 195, in run_from_argv

self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 222, in execute

output = self.handle(*args, **options)

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/core/management/base.py", line 322, in handle

label_output = self.handle_label(label, **options)

File "./django-natural-earth/natural_earth/management/commands/ne_import_countries.py", line 35, in handle_label

transform=False, encoding='iso-8859-1')

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 187, in __init__

self.check_layer()

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 319, in check_layer

idx = check_ogr_fld(ogr_name)

File "/var/www/python/mapy/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/contrib/gis/utils/layermapping.py", line 265, in check_ogr_fld

raise LayerMapError('Given mapping OGR field "%s" not found in OGR Layer.' % ogr_map_fld)

django.contrib.gis.utils.layermapping.LayerMapError: Given mapping OGR field "SHAPE_AREA" not found in OGR Layer.

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