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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Shapefiles & Geodatabases |
| Date: |
07/23/2004 01:25:01 PM |
| From: |
Ross, Gregory K. |
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Anthony,
The real issue becomes how large is your data? A personal geodatabase can
hold up to 2GB of data, and if you are able to get all of your data into a
personal geodatabase, then the processing time to merge your "sheets" MAY BE
reduced. If you're your data is larger than 2GB you may need to go to and
SDE type database.
Gregory Ross
University of Florida
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Quartararo [mailto:ajq3@spatialnetworks.com]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 2:01 PM
To: gislist@lists.geocomm.com
Subject: [gislist] Shapefiles & Geodatabases
Technically mundane question for some: I've got a ton of shapefiles for a
continuous, contiguous area. Problem is, they are all broken down into
discrete shapefile "sheets". I am more than familiar with the normal
process of "merging" the respective layers to create a extent-wide shapefile
for each layer. However, this poses enormous labor implications, not to
mention cramped mice-fingers. I can certainly important a set of shapefiles
to create a geodatabase, but, it would appear, that the same relative
problem exists: that of creating a lot of geodatabases, each a "sheet" worth
of shapefiles, but not a single "bucket" to dump all shapefiles and come out
smelling like roses, with only one geodatabase "layer" for each feature.
Does this make sense ? Granted, I firmly acknowledge that I am not the
sharpest tool in the shed, but is this a technology limitation of ESRI, a
limitation of database choice, user limitation (yes, me), or a combo ?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Anthony Quartararo
Spatial NetWorks, Inc
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