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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Shapefiles & Geodatabases |
| Date: |
07/24/2004 04:05:00 AM |
| From: |
Brian Russo |
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ogr2ogr (comes with OpenEV) and a bit of sh/awk/sed will easily merge
shapefiles.
- bri
At Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:01:20PM -0400, 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.
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> Best Regards,
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> Anthony Quartararo
> Spatial NetWorks, Inc
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