Re: [Geotools-devel] ESRI Shapefile read DBF-only data

2023-10-02 Thread Andrea Aime
Hi, I'm not opposed, but a shapefile has a quite specific definition, it requires a minimum of shp, shx and dbf to be called a shapefile. I may be amenable to allow shapefile datastore to read just dbf files as well, but nowhere in the documentation they should be called "shapefile". I'd go and ad

[Geotools-devel] ESRI Shapefile read DBF-only data

2023-09-18 Thread Burkhard Strauss
Some ESRI Shapefile data providers provide data with or without geometries. *.dbf files may come without corresponding *.shp etc. files. One such provider is HERE/NavStreets (https:/www.here.com/platform/map-data) . To support reading of such data, 15-25 lines would have to be changed. What d