Hi Brock, Thanks for your reply; However I've tried using PostGIS but could't get the shapes to actually "merge" together. Ideally what I'd like to do is have a tool such as OpenEV in to which I could load my shapefile, select a given number of *adjacent* regions, and merge selected regions to a single region, if you catch my drift. I'm beginning to think that it may not be possible... :(
Thanks once again for you input! Cheers, Neil On 1/16/06, Brock Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil, > > I tend to use Postgres/PostGIS for this kind of processing. > > For example: > > Load the data into postgres like this: > > shp2pgsql <loader options here> england.shp england_table | psql > > Then dump it out again into several shapefiles. Use an SQL statement to > select the regions to include in each file: > > pgsql2shp <dumper options here> england_table "select * where ..." > pgsql2shp <dumper options here> england_table "select * where ..." > pgsql2shp <dumper options here> england_table "select * where ..." > > Brock > > Neil Saunders wrote: > > >Hi Folks, > > > >I've got a map of England as a shapefile, containing regions for each > >county. What I'd like to do is merge selected regions in to a larger > >region (E.g Devon, Somerset, Cornwall etc into "Westcountry"). > > > >Does any one know a simple (Preferably GUI based) way of achieving this? > > > >Thanks in advance, > > > >Neil. > > > > > >
