<br><font size=2><tt>> Düster Horst wrote:<br>
> > I work with large datasets > 1'000'000 recs in a PostGIS DB.
For direct use<br>
> > with ArcView we need to export these data to ESRI shapefiles
with ogr2ogr.<br>
> > This export works automatically and nightly very stable. Now
I'm faced with<br>
> > the problem that this export doesn't create spatial indexes.
Working with<br>
> > this data in ArcView is very slow. My solution today, I create
this indexes<br>
> > by hand with ArcView every day. <br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>What version of ArcView are you targetting? </tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>> Isn't there a way of launching ArcView scripts
"in batch" as part of your<br>
> whole transfer process?<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>One of the more powerful ways I've found (for external
scripting of Arcview3) may be to use the AvPython product.</tt></font>
<br><font size=2><tt>http://avpython.sourceforge.net/ </tt></font>
<br>
<br><font size=2><tt>Many have confirmed that for Arc9, rudimentary python
scripting support will be available and bundled with ArcMap!</tt></font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>Tyler</tt></font>