Since there is no official spec for "shapefiles", there are some
differences between the different shapefiles producers and consumers.
Shapefiles produced with current PostGIS 1.5.3 should be reasonable
ready for ArcView. We, and even more some of our customers, open PostGIS
produced Shapefiles with ESRI product regularly.
Peter
On 07/21/2011 09:23 AM, Ben Madin wrote:
G'dat all,
We have a client (potential client) who wants some mapping done and the maps returned in
shapefile format. In the contract they insist on specifying that the shapefiles are
compatible with "ESRI's ArcView version 9" (their words, not mine).
I don't have "ESRI's ArcView version 9", and don't intend on spending that sort of money
(more than the contract is worth). However, I'm sure that if what we send back doesn't open in
"ESRI's ArcView version 9" it will become our problem.
Does anyone have any reason to suspect that a shapefile created using valid OGC geometry
in PostGIS and exported using pgsql2shp would not or might not work on "ESRI's
ArcView version 9"?
Are there any issues that someone who is across platforms can help me with?
(I routinely use shapefiles created using valid OGC geometry in PostGIS and
exported using pgsql2shp in QGIS and MapServer and send them to other people,
so I have no reason to be concerned except that the client insists on this line
remaining the contract!)
cheers
Ben
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