[Xastir] ESRI shapefiles and dbfawk

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:11:43PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ve7did at dccnet.com> flavor, containing:
> 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.

I just wrote a 77 line C program using shapelib that can go through a 
shapefile of any size at all and select only those shapes that lie inside
a bounding rectangle.

Just gonna work on one that can select only shapes that match a specified
value of a specified attribute. 

When I'm done I'll pop them both up on my shape_web web site for folks to
play with.

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