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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">is it somehow possible to overcome the attribute name length limitiation of DBase files using GDAL? If so, how?
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<p class="MsoNormal">If not, why not add (another) file the shapefile dataset of shapes (shp, shx), projection (prj), data (dbf) and encoding(cpg), one that is (re-) defining the column names, allowing for
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">mixed casing,<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">non-ASCII characters,<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">more than 10/11 characters<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m aware of a software product that does it this way. The file that renames the columns is set up like a CSV file defining two columns, „Name“ and „Alias“. „Name“ is the actual name of the column, „Alias“ the name in the dbase file header.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Felix Obermaier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ingenieurgruppe IVV GmbH & Co. KG<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dipl.-Ing. Felix Obermaier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oppenhoffallee 171<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">52066 Aachen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Telefon: +49 (241) 94691-39<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Telefax: +49 (241) 531622<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">eMail: obe@ivv-aachen.de<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Internet: http://www.ivv-aachen.de<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sitz der Gesellschaft: Aachen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amtsgericht Aachen HRA 6212<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Geschäftsführer:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Hölsken<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr.-Ing. Stephan Krug<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr.-Ing. Dirk Serwill<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IVV-Management GmbH<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amtsgericht Aachen HRB 12453<o:p></o:p></p>
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