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)