[gdal-dev] Re: combine shapefiles?

[Hermann Peifer]

On 13/10/2010 09:10, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
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> However, the .shp part of shapefile can not grow bigger than 4 gigabytes.

Did you ever succeed in creating a, say: 3.9G .shp file?

I do remember that some time ago, I was running into problems around 2G, 
which wasn't too much of a surprise, as [1] suggests that:

 > There is a 2 GB size limit for any shapefile component file,...

Hermann

[1] 
http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgiSDEsktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Geoprocessing_considerations_for_shapefile_output