[postgis-users] Shapefile Tool

[Aaron Racicot]

In QGIS, select Layer->New Vector Layer... from the main menus to create a
new layer.  It will prompt for the type and attributes and then a file name
to save the new shapefile as.  Once you have done that simply select the new
layer in the legend and then select the "Toggle Editing" button from the
toolbar to start editing the new layer.  There are polygon, line and point
editing tools to enable the drawing of features.  When finished select the
"Toggle Editing" tool button again and it will ask if you want to save your
changes.  Select yes to have the features written to the shapefile.

Hope that helps...

A

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Dane Springmeyer
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 11:13 AM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Shapefile Tool
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> As far as geometric entities the two GUI viewers that I am familiar
> with that can draw these are uDig and Mapwindow.
> 
> I have not used uDIG for this but I have used Mapwindow a bit.
> 
> Link to download Mapwindow is here:
> http://www.mapwindow.org/download.php?show_details=1
> 
> Mapwindow unfortunately is a windows only project but has several
> useful features not found in the other cross-platform tools already
> mentioned.
> 
>  From the menu:
> Plugins > Shapefile Editor
> 
> That adds to useful icons to the toolbar:
> 1) Create New Shapefile
> 2) Add a new regular shape to current shapefile
> 
> This will allow you to create one of 4 geometric shapes: n-sided
> regular polygon, rectangle, circle, or ellipse
> 
> Mapwindow also has the ability to load shapefiles into postgis, but
> this is a feature I have not used. If I need to do this from a graphic
> environment (rather than shp2pgsql) I use Qgis and the 'Spit' plugin.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dane
> 
> On Jun 12, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Bob Pawley wrote:
> 
> > Thank you
> >
> > I use QGis as a viewer and I also have Open Jump.
> >
> >> From what I have been able to determine so far, the editing tools
> >> only allow
> > editing of geographic files that have already been created.
> >
> > I was hoping for a way of drawing geometric entities (boxes, spheres
> > etc.) that can then be exported as a shapefile or directly as WKT or
> > WKB.
> >
> > Perhaps, these two viewers have this capability? If so, I would
> > appreciate a link that explains how to use the system.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ramsey"
> <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
> > >
> > To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:07 PM
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Shapefile Tool
> >
> >
> >> http://www.openjump.org
> >> http://udig.refractions.net
> >> http://www.qgis.org
> >> http://gvsig.gva.es
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Bob Pawley <rjpawley at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>> Does anyone know of a tool the will allow the user to draw a
> >>> geometric
> >>> object and convert it to a shapefile, or WKT/WKB, suitable to
> >>> import into
> >>> Postgis???
> >>>
> >>> Bob
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