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I use shp2pgsql to import an .shp ESRI shapefile into PostgreSQL database. I use brew installed shp2pgsql. I used this command first:

shp2pgsql -I -s 4326 /path/to/shape_file.shp public.os_gb | psql -U postgres -d postgres

It shows this message on terminal:

terminal output

It imports data into database but PostgreSQL Geometry Viewer says that it is not able to render "3D" shapes.

Then I tried this command:

shp2pgsql -I -t 2D -s 4326 /path/to/shape_file.shp public.os_gb | psql -U postgres -d postgres

Geometry Viewer shows 1 geom like this: Geometry Viewer shows 1 geom like this

So forcing in 2D did not work. Could you please help me with this and tell me what's wrong here.

Edit:

Here is the result of "ogrinfo -so -al my_shape_file.shp":

INFO: Open of `GB_GreenspaceSite.shp'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.

Layer name: GB_GreenspaceSite
Metadata:
  DBF_DATE_LAST_UPDATE=2018-09-24
Geometry: 3D Polygon
Feature Count: 143822
Extent: (9819.840000, 8274.570000) - (655230.650000, 1214133.190000)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS["OSGB 1936 / British National Grid",
    GEOGCS["OSGB 1936",
        DATUM["OSGB_1936",
            SPHEROID["Airy 1830",6377563.396,299.3249646,
                AUTHORITY["EPSG","7001"]],
            TOWGS84[446.448,-125.157,542.06,0.15,0.247,0.842,-20.489],
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","6277"]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4277"]],
    PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",49],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",-2],
    PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996012717],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",400000],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",-100000],
    UNIT["metre",1,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],
    AXIS["Easting",EAST],
    AXIS["Northing",NORTH],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","27700"]]
id: String (38.0)
function: String (40.0)
distName1: String (254.0)
distName2: String (254.0)
distName3: String (254.0)
distName4: String (254.0)
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    – Andy
    Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 17:25
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    could you add the result of ogrinfo -so -al on the shapefile
    – Ian Turton
    Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 18:06
  • Hi @IanTurton thanks for your answer. I edited and add the result of this command.
    – sinemy
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 9:26

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I suspect the issue is that your data is in EPSG:27700 (OSGB) rather than Lat/Lon (EPSG:4326). Since you only specify one projection in your -s shp2pgsql assumes it should set the geometries to be in that one. If you need to do a reproject while you are loading the data then you need to use -s 27700:4326.

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  • Hello Ian, It worked thanks a lot! Thanks for very quick response!
    – sinemy
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 10:26

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