Tile/Slice Shapefiles...

[Daniel Morissette]

Nolte, Tim wrote:
> I've found references to shp2tile and even found some downloads of the
> program. One thing I'm confused about is if this is actually going to
> tile a shapefile the way I think it will. I have one shapefile in
> particular that is one large object, basically the outline of many
> states. If I run this shapefile through shp2tile will it actually cut up
> the object into smaller objects? Seems the description of the shp2tile
> application refers to only splitting up shapefiles into smaller
> shapefile by splitting out objects but not actually breaking apart an
> object. Is there anyone that can clarify this for me?
> 

That's correct, shp2tile will *not* split your large polygon into 
smaller ones.

Daniel
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