NAME

       shptest - create some shapefiles for testing

SYNOPSIS

       shptest num

DESCRIPTION

       Writes out a shapefile consisting of files testnum.shp and testnum.shx in the current directory.  The num
       argument specifies the type of shapes in the shapefile to create and takes values from:

       0      NullShape

       1      Point

       2      PointZ

       3      PointM

       4      MultiPoint

       5      MultiPointZ

       6      MultiPointM

       7      Arc

       8      ArcZ

       9      ArcM

       10     Polygon

       11     PolygonZ

       12     PolygonM

       13     MultiPatch

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing argument.

       10     Test `num' not recognised.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

       Test `num' not recognised.

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), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shprewind(1)

shapelib                                          OCTOBER 2004                                       SHAPELIB(1)