[Xastir] fGIS for shapefile creation, any good?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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.

Let's say about 99.9% correct.  I seem to remember that there are
collections of objects called MULTIPATCH.  The type of each object
is written into the file as well as the other information.  Xastir
doesn't support those, so it's a moot point.

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