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

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:03:26AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> 
> 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.

For those with gdal already installed, ogr2ogr can do this job --- it can
split by geographic region and by dbf attributes.

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