Taavi,
Have you tried the combination of the DOS program SHP2MIF and the
Stata command -mif2dta-? Details at this page:
http://huebler.info/2005/20051106_tmap.html
Stata can continue in spite of errors with the -capture- command.
Friedrich Huebler
--- Taavi Lai <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear statalist,
>
> After downloading a number of Europe shape files I tried to convert
> all
> these to suite -tmap- using -shp2dta- but got an error message
> (output below).
> That raised two questions:
>
> 1) do you have suggestions how to improve the code (or were to look
> for solution) so that the do file wouldn't abort in case of errors
> 2) I guess that shapefile causing the error is not of a type
> suitable
> for -shp2dta- and therefore - is there a way to make these suitable
> for -shp2dta-
>
> Best regards,
> Taavi
>
> . fs *.shp
> bndnetarcs.shp hydronetpols.shp miscpolypols.shp
> translnkarcs.shp
> transnetpols.shp
> bndnetpols.shp misclinkarcs.shp poppointpnts.shp
> translnknods.shp
> vegpolyarcs.shp
> hydronetarcs.shp misclinkpnts.shp poppolyarcs.shp
> translnkpnts.shp
> vegpolypols.shp
> hydronetnods.shp miscpolyarcs.shp poppolypols.shp
> transnetarcs.shp
>
> .
> . foreach f in `r(files)' {
> 2. local pos=strpos("`f'",".")
> 3. local f = substr("`f'",1,`pos'-1)
> 4. quiet: shp2dta using `f', database("`f'_database")
> coordinates("`f'_coordinates") replace
> 5. }
> bndnetarcs.shp: polygon shapefile required
> r(610);
>
> end of do-file
> r(610);
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