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

James Ewen jewen at shaw.ca
Sun Dec 19 15:53:04 EST 2004


> I might have to experiment with my own shapefile-extracting 
> tool and get myself a set of major roads that I can use at 
> high zooms, and turn off county-level TIGER data when zoomed 
> out that far.  That way, I'll only get RTrees built for 
> shapefiles that I actually view at low zooms.  Hmmm.  

You really should try it... The crazy guy that wrote them did a good job.
They work as expected, and really make the maps much faster to display.

James

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