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I helped a colleague converting waypoints from a gpx file to a shape file. My colleague has only arcMap. I gave him the shp and when he opened it in ArcMap, it did not show anything in the attribute table. I installed Qgis in his machine, We tried with a couple of different gpx files and we have the same problem. The resulting shp does not show anything in the attribute table in ArcMap, but we are able to see all the data in Qgis. Any Ideas? Thanks before hand

Gerardo Jimenez

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It seems that the field "url name" messes the things up. I deleted it and now I am able to see the data on the attribute table – Gerardo Jimenez Nov 26 '12 at 15:29
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Also I made another experiment and renamed the "url name" field to "urlname" (no space) with the table manager plugin and I am able to see all the info in ArcMap without a problem. – Gerardo Jimenez Nov 26 '12 at 15:41
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in general spaces in file names or attributes are discouraged. Use underscores or no spaces wherever possible. – Craig Nov 26 '12 at 16:45
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Furthermore, you might have hit a reserved name as field name. – Andre Joost Nov 26 '12 at 19:09
Sorry, I did not get "you might have hit a reserved name as field name". Can you explain me what this refers to? – Gerardo Jimenez Nov 26 '12 at 19:58
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