[OSM-talk] [Fwd: Re: Coastline Upload Problem]

[Ray Booysen]

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Subject: 	Re: [OSM-talk] Coastline Upload Problem
Date: 	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:28:09 +1000
From: 	Keith Ng <khensthoth at gmail.com>
To: 	Ray Booysen <raybooysen at rjb.za.net>
References: 
<7fe2b1530709210214r26a4f829icd5852ed810f7e03 at mail.gmail.com> 
<46F38CED.3010306 at rjb.za.net> 
<7fe2b1530709210222j6eb794c8l96aa01f634805d2 at mail.gmail.com>



Never mind, I have figured out the problem. It's my stupidity after all. 
Thanks for all your help.

On 9/21/07, *Keith Ng* < khensthoth at gmail.com 
<mailto:khensthoth at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Yes, I have.


    On 9/21/07, *Ray Booysen* <raybooysen at rjb.za.net
    <mailto:raybooysen at rjb.za.net>> wrote:

        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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