[postgis-users] shp2pgsql

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 16/02/11 14:29, Mehmet Erkek wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Wishing you all a fruitful day, here is a problem we have and we are
> hoping to get some help:
>
> We are converting a shapefile to postgis with shp2pgsql. Conversion is
> done without problem. However, it produces boundaries with fewer points
> than we expect, thus it produces sharper boundaries and sometimes
> overlaps with neighboring boundaries.
>
> Is there way to make it produce outputs with more points and much closer
> to original shapefile?
>
> I appreciate any comment on this.
>
> Thanks.

I think you need to clarify this with an example, since shp2pgsql 
doesn't alter the input geometries, it merely converts them to binary 
for storage within the database.


ATB,

Mark.

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