Shapefile format question.

[Lowell Filak]

Many thanks to Steve W. & Frank.

Lowell

The following message was sent by Stephen Woodbridge
<woodbri at swoodbridge.com> on Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:53:08 -0400.

> Lowell,
>
> Shapefile ARC objects can be polylines. That is they can have multiple
> points that describe a curve, but between any two adjacent points in a
> polyline, the segment is always a straight line. This holds true for the
> simple polyline that only has 2 points (ie: a line).
>
> Hope this answers your question.
> -Steve W.
>
> 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.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Lowell
> >