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)