Shapefile format question.

[Frank Warmerdam]

Lowell Filak wrote:

> Hopefully someone who knows more about the layout of a shapefile can
> help here.
> Is the segment between two points on a line object always a straight line?
> I know a coverage is and we are using shapefiles translated from
> coverages so it's probably safe to assume that is the case here but I
> don't want to break my mapscript function for generic shapefiles we may
> add later.

Lowell,

Yes, in a shapefile the polyline segments are always considered to be
straight lines.

Best regards,

Frank