Shapelib Library to Generate Shape Layers

The shapelib is a C library to create and manage shape file. On a Linux operating system, the library can simply installed with the package:

apt-get install shapelib

The library is provided with a full set of line command. The main structure of the shapes is in DBF (Data Base File) witch is used by ESRI. The shape file format consist of the the three files suffixe:

• .shp - holds the actual vertices.
• .shx - hold index data pointing to the structures in the .shp file.
• .dbf - holds the attributes in xBase (dBase) format.

The home page of the shapelib project is:

http://shapelib.maptools.org/

We can use shapelib in programs witch generate shape layers. The shape layers can then be imported into a PostGIS database.

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Database Commands

dbfcreate to Create a new Shape Database

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

dbfadd

Go to the manual page dbfadd

dbfdump

Go to the manual page dbfdump

dbfact

Go to the manual page dbfact

dbfinfo

Go to the manual page dbfinfo

Shape Commands

shpcreate

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shpadd

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shpdump

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shprewind

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shpcat

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shpcentrd

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shpdxf

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

shpproj

Go to the manual page dbfcreate

-- TWikiAdminUser - 2010-05-31