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Nov 10, 2016 at 23:19 comment added Prasanna dahal Thanks user30184 for the help. Creating a .shx file using ogrinfo and then using my existing code did the trick. @FezterI was planning to accept shapefile in WGS 1984 only to avoid the ambiguity.
Nov 10, 2016 at 7:14 comment added user30184 If you use that configuration option you will get an answer. Option is actually first creating the .shx file from .shp. Test with ogrinfo ogrinfo bounds.shp --config SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX TRUE -al -so INFO: Open of bounds.shp' using driver ESRI Shapefile' successful. Layer name: bounds Geometry: Polygon Feature Count: 1 Extent: (500.000000, 280.000000) - (740.000000, 480.000000) Layer SRS WKT: (unknown)
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Nov 10, 2016 at 5:12 comment added Fezter Without the .prj file, you won't know what coordinate system the data is in. So, while you may be able to get x and y, that is meaningless without a coordinate system.
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Nov 10, 2016 at 4:58 history asked Prasanna dahal CC BY-SA 3.0