[Qgis-user] Maximum string length 254

[James Keener]

The 254 character limit is inherent to the shapefile format, not QGIS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile#Limitations

Whoever is providing the shapefile must have it stored in another format.
Could you get the raw data? Could you get a SpatiaLite database instead of
shapefiles? Could you convert the geometry in the shapefile to WKT and do
whatever it is you need to do with the text (as opposed to the geometry)
with that?

Jim

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Giulia Barbero <giulybarbero at hotmail.it>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using Q-GIS 2.10.1 and I have a problem. I have a shapefile with datas
> from a company and in the list of attributes tehre is described the
> geometry (I mean, there are all the coordinates). The problem is that the
> maximum length of the string is set to 254 and because of this I loose
> information if teh line has a complicated geometry. Do you know if there a
> solution, maybe by creating the attribute in another way or by using
> different types of files ( for example using spatialite) ? I need the
> coordinates of each line...
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Giulia
>
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