NAME

       shp2pgsql-gui - Graphical User Interface for shp2pgsql

SYNOPSIS

       shp2pgsql-gui [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the shp2pgsql-gui command.

       shp2pgsql-gui  is  a  program  that  converts  ESRI  Shape  files  into  SQL statements and imports these
       statements to a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. The GUI allows the user to set the shape file to import, the
       PostGIS/PostgreSQL  connection  parameters  and  some options related to the table where the data will be
       imported to.

       shp2pgsql-gui can be called with some command  line  options  that  fill  the  PostGIS/PostgreSQL  server
       connection parameters in.

OPTIONS

       -d database
              Specifies the name of the database where the data will be imported to.

       -h host
              Specifies the host name of the machine on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is running.

       -p port
              Specifies the TCP port on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is listening for connections.

       -U username
              Specifies the username with which the user will connect to the database.

       -W password
              Specifies the password with which the user will connect to the database.

       -?     Shows help about shp2pgsql-gui command line arguments.

SEE ALSO

       shp2pgsql(1), pgsql2shp(1)

       The documentation of pgsql2shp, shp2pgsql and shp2pgsql-gui in HTML format is available on the filesystem
       at /usr/share/doc/postgis.

AUTHOR

       shp2pgsql-gui  was  written  by  Paul  Ramsey  <pramsey@opengeo.org>  and  Mark  Cave-Ayland  <mark.cave-
       ayland@siriusit.co.uk>.

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica@probeta.net>, for the Debian project.
       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU  General
       Public License, Version 2 and any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL-2.

                                                January 14, 2012                                SHP2PGSQL-GUI(1)