I'm a little fuzzy on what you're trying to do and what process you're 
following. 

- Is your final desired output a shapefile, or a Maptitude database (dbd or 
cdf)? 

- And are you trying to perform the merge within Maptitude, or import a 
shapefile merged by another utility?

If all you want to do is to create a merged shapefile, then I recommend using 
ogr2ogr instead of Maptitude. And if you want a dbd/cdf, then I recommend using 
ogr2ogr to merge the shapefiles, and then import the combined shapefile 
(assuming that's not what you're already trying). 

Finally, I don't have proof of this, but Maptitude seems to consume fewer 
resources if you do the conversion in two steps: 
  1. import the shapefile to a non-topological dbd; 
  2. export that dbd as a topological dbd. 
Can anyone at Caliper confirm my suspicion?


--- In [email protected], "timmelko" <timmelko@...> wrote:
>
> Merging all 2010 Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles into 1 shape file.
> 
> I've been attempting to merge all of the 2010 Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles 
> into 1 shape file.
> 
> I'm not having much success so far and was curious if anyone else has tried 
> this.
> 
> I can import them one at a time with no problem, however, after I have all of 
> the Shapefiles combined into one, it gets to about 30% on the import and then 
> my PC runs out of memory and it causes Maptitude to crash.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated!
> 
> ~Tim Melko~
>




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