[Xastir] ESRI shapefiles and dbfawk

[Tom Robson, ve7did]

James:

How do you want Alberta chopped up?  I had a huge shapefile of BC  chopped up 
into smaller areas a while ago.  I think the program was Mapinfo which was 
used, but can't remember for sure.  I'll let you know tomorrow.

I'm hoping Mapinfo will read the 40M file directly.

...73 Tom   ve7did
>
> This is where you're likely to see the most benefit of speed.  Chopping up
> the shapefile into shapefiles of smaller geographic regions will really
> help, because xastir can exclude whole files just based on the index it
> builds.
>
> I'm not familiar with any simple tools that can do this.  Perhaps Gerry can
> suggest one?