[Gdal-dev] OT: Measure in shape file

[Radim Blazek]

On Monday 09 December 2002 08:08 am, Paul Selormey wrote:
> Hello All,
> What really is the meaning of the "measure" part of the shapefile
> primitives?
>
> For instance, there is a primitive PointM, where the M denotes
> measure.

Quite a good document about LRS by ESRI is 
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/lrds_arcgis.pdf

PointM sounds strange in this context.

Radim