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That's interesting. This may explain why the --fid switch has no
effect. I wonder what the --fid switch is for, then.<br>
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Brent Fraser wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Is the FID
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<pre wrap="">supposed to be in the .dbf file that accompanies the .shp file?
I have examined this file, and I don't see an FID column (column
names are in the first row). In particular, since starspan2
reports an FID of 0 for Zemmour, Mauritania, I would expect to
see a column with the value 0 in the Zemmour row of the .dbf
file. But, there isn't one. I was assuming that FIDs were in
one of the other files in the set (.dbf, .fix, .qix, .shp, .shx).
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I think StarSpan will "assign" a Feature ID (FID), likely sequentially
with the first one being 0, to the records as it reads them. I'm not sure
if it would use an FID field in the DBF file (where are the attributes
are) if it found one.
Brent
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