NAME

       shapeindex - program to creates file system based index for ESRI shapefiles

SYNOPSIS

       shapeindex [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the shapeindex command.

       shapeindex  is  a program that creates file system based index (*.index) for ESRI shapefiles. These files
       are used for fast 'in box' queries on large shapefiles.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').
       A summary of options is included below.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -V, --version
              Show version of program.

       --shape-index
              Index individual shape parts (default: no)

       -v, --verbose
              Show verbose output.

       -d, --depth [arg]
              Specify maximum tree depth (default 8)

       -r, --ratio [arg]
              Specify split ratio (default 0.55)

       --shape_files [file1 file2..fileN]
              Specify shape files to index

AUTHOR

       shapeindex was written by Artem Pavlenko.

       This  manual  page  was  written by Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>, for the Debian project (but may be
       used by others).

                                                January 11, 2007                                   SHAPEINDEX(1)