<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Dan Putler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.putler@sauder.ubc.ca">dan.putler@sauder.ubc.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Jayesh,<br>
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I think the short answer is "no". A shapefile can only deal with one geometry layer at a time by construction. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, I know this. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
To handle multiple layers in the same file, folks have gone to geospatial databases, where each table is a separate layer if the table has a geometry column. An "open" format that would do what you want can be done using SpatiaLite: <a href="http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/" target="_blank">http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/</a>.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is very useful information. I was thinking of some sort of database but didn't know about spatialite. </div><div> </div><div>Thanks Dan. I will look into it. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dan<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 10/19/2010 11:37 AM, Jayesh Chaudhary wrote:<br>
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I know I can merge shapefiles using ogr2ogr but is there a way to group them? So that each layer can be separate and we just send users a single file (other then zip)?<br>
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I don't know any but wondering if someone.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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