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

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

That's the tool we use in the MapServer world.  Works surprisingly well.

gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 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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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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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