[gdal-dev] OGR : Shapefile driver limits column name to 10 chars

[Even Rouault]

Selon Anders Moe <anders.moe at geocap.no>:

Try looking for "dbf field names limited to 10 characters" in your favorite
search engine and you should get the answer ;-)

The OGR shapefile driver mentions just before "Shapefile feature attributes are
stored in an associated .dbf file, and so attributes suffer a number of
limitations". That also gives you an hint on where the limitation comes from...

> Hi all
>
> The OGR shapefile driver has a documentet caveat in that column names can
> not exceed 10 characters:
>
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html
>
> <http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html>Does anyone know if this is an
> inherent limitation of the shapefile format or within the OGR driver ? Any
> possibility that this will be lifted ? I'm using GDAL 1.7,
>
> Regards,
> Anders
>