[Xastir] fGIS for shapefile creation, any good?

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:46:51AM +0300, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <oh2kku at iki.fi> flavor, containing:
> Tom Russo wrote:
> >It does.  Check out the fGIS manual page at 
> >http://www.digitalgrove.net/Help/tools.htm#attributes
> 
> That was too straight-forward for me to find :-)  I guess I better think 
> through the design of the attribute dictionary before I have digitized 
> too much data to edit afterwards.
> 
> By playing around for a while I have come up with some assumptions on 
> shapefiles, can someone confirm or deny these:
>   1) One shapefile can contain only objects of one type (point, line, 
> polygon).
>   2) All objects in one shapefile share the same attribute structure, 
> but naturally different objects can have differing values for each 
> attribute.

Both correct.

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