Breaking up shapefiles Re: [Xastir] ESRI shapefiles and dbfawk

[Curt Mills]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> BTW, one of the things I like about having these spatial indices set up is that
> it opens up the possibility of querying shapefile maps with the mouse
> (i.e. you use the spatial indices to determine what shapes of what files
> are under the mouse pointer, and read in the DBF records).  That's a ways
> off, though --- first order of business is to get that memory usage under
> control.

That would enable us to click on a weather alert to fetch the full
text of the alert from the WXSVR, instead of finding it in the list.

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