NAME

       shpcreate - create an empty ESRI shapefile

SYNOPSIS

       shpcreate file shapetype

DESCRIPTION

       Creates an empty shapefile supporting shapes of the given type shapetype.  Shapefiles actually consist of
       two  files  with  the  same basename and extensions .shp and .shx (or .SHP and .SHX) containing the shape
       data and shape index respectively.  The files to create are determined by first  stripping  any  filename
       extension from file and attempting to create the files file.shp or file.SHP, and file.shx or file.SHX for
       the  respective  data  and index files.  The supported values for the shapetype argument are: point, arc,
       polygon, and multipoint.

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing file or shapetype argument.

       2      Unknown shapetype.

       3      Unable to create the shapefile.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

       Shape Type `shapetype' not recognised.

       Unable to create:file

AUTHORS

       Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the  maintainer  of  the  shapelib  shapefile  library.   Joonas
       Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote this man page.

SEE ALSO

       dbfadd(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbf_dump(1), shpadd(1), shpdump(1), shprewind(1)

shapelib                                          OCTOBER 2004                                       SHAPELIB(1)