[mapserver-users] New to Mapserver

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Yes, there are two utility programs the come with shapelib (dbfdump and
shpdump) that are comand line utilities (on Windows you have to run them
from a DOS window) dbfdump prints all the attributes from the .dbf file
and shpdump prints the shapefile extents and then all the coordinate
info for every shape in the shape file.

-Steve W.

Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Is there a way to look at the contents of shapefile or its realted file
> to know what is in it ?
> 
> Sathis
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> >Sathis,
> >
> >The EXTENT in the map file is wrong. The census data is in Decimal
> >Degrees so it should look like
> >
> >EXTENT -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
> >
> >which will cover the whole globe, you can set these numbers smaller
> >based on the real extents of you shapefile.
> >
> >-Steve W.
> >