[Mapserver-users] shapefile programming

[Lowell Filak]

Sounds like a good case for an example so the perl mapscript program to do just that is at:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PerlMapScriptExamples35ex15
HTH
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by John Hagstrand <john.hagstrand at interageresearch.com> on Sun, 02 Mar 2003 13:01:21 -0600.

> Hi,
> 
> I need a program or programmer to manipulate a Shapefile.
> 
> I want to pull the bounding box out of the SHP file and put it in the DBF 
> file.
> 
> You see what I mean?  I want to add four columns to the DBF file: north, 
> south, east and west.  And I want to populate those four fields to indicate 
> the boundary of each object.
> 
> Do you know of a utility program that will do this?  If not, do you know a 
> programmer who will write me such a utility program for a fee?
> 
> Thanks
> John
> 
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