Support for ArcZ in shapelib?

[Eduardo Spremolla]

A much utile way may be map Z and M as dbf fields. That way can be used
as labels, querys and filters.

LALO

El mar, 17-08-2004 a las 17:26, Frank Warmerdam escribió:
> Chris Helm wrote:
> > Hey list-
> >
> > I just wanted to see if they were any plans for
> > providing support for "ArcZ" shapefiles.  We recently
> > had a few cross our paths and were able to work around
> > the problem when we found out Mapserver and shapelib
> > doesnt handle them.  But just for our knowledge we
> > wanted to ask why the format is not supported?
> 
> Chris,
> 
> I think this was already recently answered here on the list.  The short answer
> is that Shapelib supports ArcZ files just fine, and you can use them with
> MapServer through OGR.  However, the high efficiency version of shapelib
> that was integrated into MapServer some time ago does not included support for
> 3D or 4D shapefiles.  It could be implemented fairly easily if someone was
> sufficiently motivated (assume we just want to discard the Z or M values).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
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