[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3676: Exporting ShapeFile

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#3676: Exporting ShapeFile
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   Reporter:  lfedje            |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug               |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  minor: annoyance  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Build/Install     |            Version:  1.6.0        
   Keywords:                    |   Platform_version:  OS X 10.6.6  
   Platform:  OS X              |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                 |  
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 I made the following post in the forum.

 ''"I am new to QGIS so please bear with my ignorance.''

 ''I am using QGIS Version 1.6.0 on an iMac i7.''

 ''I created a Google Earth plotting of over 1000 properties with fairly
 long titles and substantial descriptions. One of my clients wants me to
 provide them with a ShapeFile of their properties together with the text
 so that they can load it onto their existing GIS system.''

 ''This is what I have done so far:''

 ''I added a vector layer from a kml file I produced from Google Earth. The
 shapefile opens up just beautiful in QGIS and if I click on any one of the
 properties (using the info icon) all of the pertinent information that I
 put into Google Earth shows up just fine in "identify results". The
 problem that I am having is that when saving the shapefile ( Layer > Save
 As > ESRI Shapefile). The result when viewed on my clients system is that
 the shapes show up perfectly but the text information is truncated. I took
 a look at the data in the dbf file and find that all of the descriptions
 and names are shown as character,80.''

 ''Is there any way to increase the field size for name and description of
 the data being exported or is it just the nature of the program?''

 ''Any help with this would be greatly appreciated''

 ''Thanks in advance"''

 I followed this up with a ticket to GDAL wherein they have since
 responded. I placed their response in the following thread. Someone then
 mentioned that I report this as a possible bug.

 http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8259

 Thanks

 Loren

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3676>
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