block import UI fails silently

[slinkp]

If importer.save(name_field) returns 0 as the number of created locations, the UI doesn't tell you anything about what went wrong.
See around line 162 in obadmin/admin/views.py.

One possible scenario that triggers this: all the locations are outside your configured metro extent from settings.py.

[slinkp]

This happened to us today while trying to load a shapefile with a wrongly-guessed projection; we had a shapefile with no .prj file and wrongly told ogr2ogr it was in "NAD83 North Carolina meters" instead of "NAD83 North Carolina Feet". No errors, just wildly wrong coordinates, so the import UI silently failed to import anything.

[slinkp]

Ticket imported from Trac:
http://developer.openblockproject.org/ticket/258
Reported by: slinkp