Em quinta-feira, 21 de julho de 2011 08:15:43, MarkW escreveu:
Do the shptree and related shapefile utilities that come with the osgeo
installs apply here? I've only used them in association with MapServer,
so I don't know if shptree's indexes are usable by ESRI software.
Mark
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Ben Madin
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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.
Do
es 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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There is an open specification of the shapefile format
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
Shape is still the 'de facto' format for exchanging GIS data. I can't
think of anything else right now.
Regarding compatibility, they are compatible AFAIK. Never had an issue.
George
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