[Shapelib] Handling polygon rings in shapefiles

Brian Peschel brianp at occinc.com
Wed Oct 12 06:41:35 PDT 2005


> Brian,
> 
> As far as I recall Shapelib does not address the issue of associating
> inner rings with their owning outer ring.  There is code to accomplish
> this in OGR in the shape2ogr.cpp module which might be of some
> use to you.
> 
>   http://www.gdal.org/srctree/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape/shape2ogr.cpp
> 
> Best regards,
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Frank,

This was exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you very much for your help!

Brian






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