Using spshape2dta

[Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti]

Dear All,

I have a (possibly) rather silly question. I tried to download a shapefile for Europe from the European Commission website (Countries - GISCO - Eurostat). Here I selected year = 2004; File format = SHP: Geometric type = Polygons; Scale = 01M: CRS = EPSG: 3035.

Then, I tried to use spshape2date to convert the shape file:

spshape2dta NUTS_RG_01M_2024_3035.shp

When I look at the coordinate file, I get:

* Example generated by -dataex-. For more info, type help dataex
clear
input int _ID double(_X _Y) strL rec_header long shape_order
1        5179983.544 2144882.9366999995 ""  2
1       5179843.0426 2142681.5287999995 ""  3
1       5179769.8795 2141537.2924000006 ""  4
1       5181114.7706 2139746.4126999993 ""  5
1  5181875.865700001       2138733.3784 ""  6
1  5184864.799000001       2138796.2807 ""  7
1  5186436.989800001 2140037.3862999994 ""  8
1  5186404.238500001       2140480.1633 ""  9
1       5186311.7422 2141730.2251999993 "" 10
1       5186264.8584 2142363.6045999993 "" 11
1       5187293.4475 2144202.8122000005 "" 12
1  5191437.300899999       2144719.4924 "" 13
1       5192365.8682 2144415.7705000006 "" 14
1       5193275.6537  2143616.419399999 "" 15
1       5194138.1588       2142858.8817 "" 16
1  5194637.603399999 2143211.1196999997 "" 17
1  5195645.569599999 2143922.2386000007 "" 18
1       5198279.4508 2144087.0813999996 "" 19
1       5198337.7116 2142152.5166999996 "" 20
1 5198352.5901999995       2141657.5976 "" 21
1       5198544.7941 2141358.3759000003 "" 22
1        5198835.249 2140906.2454000004 "" 23
1  5198934.271600001 2140524.9142000005 "" 24
1       5199236.3432       2139361.7434 "" 25
1  5199849.679199999  2138950.348200001 "" 26
1       5199858.8058       2137763.8488 "" 27
1  5199266.619899999 2137526.1125000007 "" 28
1  5197914.373500001 2137694.9998000003 "" 29
1  5197793.704500001  2136700.879899999 "" 30
1 5196841.8429000005  2136153.566400001 "" 31
1       5197056.4508 2135158.6971000005 "" 32
1       5196124.2513  2132871.382099999 "" 33
1       5196220.7765 2131477.4283000007 "" 34
1       5195975.2566 2130653.1086999998 "" 35
1  5196292.391899999       2129397.4078 "" 36
1        5197305.987 2128158.5988999996 "" 37
1  5197755.015900001  2126184.846999999 "" 38
1       5197149.1713  2123231.585999999 "" 39
1  5198067.586200001 2122227.0902999993 "" 40
1       5198243.6611       2120614.6942 "" 41
1  5199844.331900001 2119289.4211999998 "" 42
1  5200429.121300001       2117769.2017 "" 43
1       5201057.1099       2117143.6558 "" 44
1  5201644.271400001 2114995.6489000004 "" 45
1 5200394.9377999995 2114290.2064999994 "" 46
1  5199351.435699999 2113208.9652999993 "" 47
1       5198736.3091  2112571.857000001 "" 48
1       5197698.8049 2112268.3329000007 "" 49
1       5194505.2982 2111335.3024000004 "" 50
end

Clearly the _X and the _Y are not as expected. I have also tried to use the user-written shp2dta, but the result is the same. Is there something wrong with my command? Indeed, if I use an old shape file for European regions, everything runs smoothly. I checked the help file for spshape2dta but I cannot find any solution to this problem

Any help you may provide would be highly appreciated.

Dario