[OSM-talk] Coastline Upload Problem

[Ray Booysen]

Hi Keith

Have you unzipped the file from NGA?

Regards
Ray


Keith Ng wrote:
> I was trying to upload coastline data for Penang, Malaysia, which is
> in reagion 3 in the NGA data. I have no programming skill whatsoever,
> and thus after numerous trial and error, this is what I have done:
>
> 1. Installed ActivePerl
> 2. Downloaded Geo-ShapeFile version 2.51 using Perl Package Manager
> 3. Downloaded coast_josm.pl
> 4. Downloaded the data for the region I want (3)
> 5. Put all files into the same directory.
> 6. Go to Windows cmd.exe and type in perl upload_josm.pl 5.2 5.5 100.2 
> 100.4 3
> 7. Put the NGA files in a folder called Data, which is in the
> directory coast_josm.pl is in.
> 8. Go to Windows cmd.exe and type in perl upload_josm.pl 5.2 5.5 100.2 
> 100.4 3
>
> However, everytime I do that all I got was an error saying "Couldn't
> get file handle for Data/NGA_GlobalShoreline_cd3
> .shx: No such file or directory at coast_josm.pl line 52"
>
> What did I do wrong? Your reply would be very much appreciated. Thank
> you very much.
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