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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Shapefiles & Geodatabases |
| Date: |
07/24/2004 12:40:00 AM |
| From: |
Paul Ramsey |
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For a problem like this, you will be hard put to find a more handy
technology than the FME from Safe Software (www.safe.com). Just today
I tiled together data from 7067 mapsheets into a single contiguous data
set using the FME (and a little perl, because that is just who I am).
P.
On Friday, July 23, 2004, at 11:01 AM, Anthony Quartararo wrote:
> 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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