On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Dan Putler <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Jayesh, > > I think the short answer is "no". A shapefile can only deal with one > geometry layer at a time by construction. Thanks, I know this. > To handle multiple layers in the same file, folks have gone to geospatial > databases, where each table is a separate layer if the table has a geometry > column. An "open" format that would do what you want can be done using > SpatiaLite: http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/. > This is very useful information. I was thinking of some sort of database but didn't know about spatialite. Thanks Dan. I will look into it. > Dan > > > On 10/19/2010 11:37 AM, Jayesh Chaudhary wrote: > >> I know I can merge shapefiles using ogr2ogr but is there a way to group >> them? So that each layer can be separate and we just send users a single >> file (other then zip)? >> >> I don't know any but wondering if someone. >> >> Thanks, >> >> > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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