Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Mike:
>Recently I tried to open/import ArcView shapefiles in
>Maptitude 4.1. Some of the files opened (and
>converted to .dbd) fine, but two larger ones returned
>an error message and could not be opened. FYI, one of
>the shapefiles had about 225,000 records and 75
>fields. The file size was about 19 megs. Has anyone
>had a similar experience, could it be due to the size
>of the files, and is there a way to fix the problem?
Were they areas? If so, the default is to build topology. By removing the
check from the Eliminate duplicate boundary lines box, the areas will be
imported as polygons, which requires far less processing and memory. There
will only be a few things that you cannot do with a non-topological .DBD
file, such as merging by value.
Peter
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