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Folks,
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I wrote a Python script that splits a shapefile into pieces, using pyshapelib. It was a snap, about 15 lines of code. I'll try to locate the code and pass it along...
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Vic.
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On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 09:27, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Luca,</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I don't think there is a general tool to do that, but if you know C it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>is pretty easy to use shplib to write utility to read the shape file and</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>dump specific records to different files. You can also do this using</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Perl and the XBase and shplib addins.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Why do you want to split the file?</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>performance? have you tried building a shptree index?</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-Steve W.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Luca Pescatore wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Where i can find "How To Split Large SHP Files" in to small files ?</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Is it available an How To ? I can't din it on Wiki.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Best Regards,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Luca Pescatore</FONT></FONT></I>
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