[Xastir] Re: [Shapelib] splitting up shape files (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

This should be of interest for those breaking large shapefiles into
smaller tiles.  It can potentially speed up Xastir's map accesses by
quite a bit.

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:55:43 -0400
From: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca>
Reply-To: Shapelib Development <shapelib at lists.maptools.org>
To: Shapelib Development <shapelib at lists.maptools.org>
Subject: Re: [Shapelib] splitting up shape files

Ben Watson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>             I’m trying to locate some tools that can easily split up
> large shape files (.shp). We need to split up some large maps into
> regularly sized tiles. Also, we don’t have the .dbf files. I’ve looked
> at a lot of documentation and code that should do it, but nothing is
> turning out to be as straightforward as it ought to be.
>
>

Look for shp2tile at http://imaptools.com/tools/, it does exactly that.

I think
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