[mapserver-users] HOWTO Split Large SHP Files

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Fri Mar 15 09:27:19 EST 2002


Luca,

I don't think there is a general tool to do that, but if you know C it
is pretty easy to use shplib to write utility to read the shape file and
dump specific records to different files. You can also do this using
Perl and the XBase and shplib addins.

Why do you want to split the file?
performance? have you tried building a shptree index?

-Steve W.

Luca Pescatore wrote:
> 
> Where i can find "How To Split Large SHP Files" in to small files ?
> 
> Is it available an How To ? I can't din it on Wiki.
> 
> Best Regards,
>         Luca Pescatore



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