[holgerschurig]

You should file a bug for the QGIS software.

If a software crashes when presented with bad data, it’s always a bug. Software should never crash, it should present an error message or otherwise deal with bad data.

Also, there’s the chance that they fix the bug and that future QGIS version could load the file as-is, without hickup.

[holgerschurig]

Oh, posted to wrong thread, sorry. Now I deleted this wrong post via EDIT.

[holgerschurig]

Okay, that helped. Seems that this is intentional. Didn’t knew that they even send somebody to the European Community.

For me this means that I cannot use the admin-0-countries to label the actual countries, because those four territories won’t get a name then.

[holgerschurig]

Ah, it sucks that you don’t have a “preview” and that there is no “edit” capability. The first paragraph should be:

In a shape file, e.g. in 50m-admin-0-countries.shp, the entries are sorted

in exactly the same order as in the accomanying database. Therefore you can

use low-level tools, e.g. from shapelib, to dump both files and correlate

the data:

[holgerschurig]

In a shape file, e.g. in 50m-admin-0-countries.shp, the entries are sorted in exactly the s

$ shapelib-1.3.0b1/dbfdump 50m-cultural/50m-admin-0-countries.shp | cut -c1-20 | head -n 4

COUNTRY

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

shapelib-1.3.0b1/shpdump 50m-cultural/50m-admin-0-countries.shp | grep -A1 “Bounds:” | head

File Bounds: ( -180.000, -89.999,0,0)

to ( 180.000, 83.600,0,0)

—

Bounds:( 60.486, 29.392, 0)

to ( 74.891, 38.456, 0)

—

Bounds:( 19.281, 39.653, 0)

to ( 21.031, 42.648, 0)

—

Bounds:( -8.683, 18.987, 0)

to ( 11.968, 37.092, 0)

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