[Qgis-user] shapefile/dbf number limitation?

[John C. Tull]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 1:18 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I'm adding some real number fields to a shapefile and QGIS only lets me set up to 5 decimal digits.  I would like more.  Is this intentional or is something broken?

Hi William,

Are you hitting the normal shapefile limitations, or is this unique to QGIS shapefile handling? See the table in the link below.

http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Geoprocessing_considerations_for_shapefile_output

Regards,
John