Bug #6437
dissolve converting 2d -> 3d
| Status: | New | Start Date: | 09/30/2012 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Platform: | OSX, Linux | Patch supplied: | No | |
| Platform version: | OSX 10.8.2, Linux: Ubuntu 12.04 | Affected version: | 1.8.0 | |
| Status info: | Causes crash or corruption: | No | ||
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Description
It seems that when I dissolve a shapefile with 2d polygons, the output is a 3d PolygonZ shapefile (with Z=0 for all vertices).
A work around is to convert it back into 2d with ogr2ogr, but it took me a while to figure out what was going on.