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Also known as ESRI ArcView. ESRI is the company that introduced this format; ArcView was the first product to use shapefiles. Shapefiles are made up of a minimum of three similarly named files, with different suffixes:
Data access/connection method
ogrinfo examples
Here's an example that uses ogrinfo on a directory with multiple shapefiles: > ogrinfo /data/shapefiles/ INFO: Open of '/data/shapefiles/' using driver 'ESRI Shapefile' successful. 1: wpg_h2o (Line String) 2: wpg_roads (Line String) 3: wpg_roads_dis (Line String) 4: wpgrestaurants (Point) Here's an example that uses ogrinfo on a single shapefile: > ogrinfo /data/shapefiles/Countries_area.shp Had to open data source read-only. INFO: Open of 'Countries_area.shp' using driver 'ESRI Shapefile' successful. 1: Countries_area (Polygon) Here's an example that uses ogrinfo to examine the structure of the file/layer: > ogrinfo -summary /data/shapefiles/Countries_area.shp Countries_area Had to open data source read-only. INFO: Open of 'Countries_area.shp' using driver 'ESRI Shapefile' successful. Layer name: Countries_area Geometry: Polygon Feature Count: 27458 Extent: (-180.000000, -90.000000) - (180.000000, 83.627419) Layer SRS WKT: (unknown) FAC_ID: Integer (5.0) TILE: Integer (3.0) ARCLIST: String (254.0) NAM: String (77.0) PERIMETER: Real (22.17) POLYGONCOU: Integer (6.0) NA2DESC: String (45.0) Map file exampleLAYER NAME my_shapefile TYPE POLYGON DATA countries_area STATUS OFF CLASS NAME "Countries" OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0 END END |
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