Another question about shapefiles

[Joseph Norris]

Stephen,

These are really great - I was able to build my shape file from zip file
very easily.  Now the question is - and I have experimented.

I see in the Shapelib docs I see that I can open a shapefile that already
exists.  Can I then read another file of points and the put these points on
the original shape?

No matter what I do I am getting errors back.   I can only find examples of
code in the pod for the module.

Thanks for all your help.

#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map chr
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu]On
Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:14 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Another question about shapefiles

Joseph,

Check out perl modules:

Geo::ShapeFile
Geo::Shapelib
XBase

These are handy modules for working with shapefiles and the DBF
attributes file. I write scripts all the time for creating, reading and
manipulating shapefiles. When I need more performance I usually use the
shapelib library and C code.

-Steve

Joseph Norris wrote:
> I have a US zip file containing zip codes and associated lat/long
> information.  Can I convert this to points on a shapefile?
>
> #Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map
chr
>
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
> 68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);
>