<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Felix,<br><br></div> following your proposal would make Shapefiles cease to respect the dBaseIV Standard and potentially seriously affect their interchangability. There are a range of alternative formats supported by GDAL that achieve your goal: for example, I use SQL as my base format and only convert when necessary. SQL is generally accepted by other packages and is far more flexible than dBaseIV.<br><br></div>Best wishes,<br><br></div>Peter<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 March 2017 at 13:26, Felix Obermaier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:obe@ivv-aachen.de" target="_blank">obe@ivv-aachen.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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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<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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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