xenial (1) shpcreate.1.gz

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NAME

       shpcreate - create an empty ESRI shapefile

SYNOPSIS

       shpcreate shp_file [point|arc|polygon|multipoint]

DESCRIPTION

       Creates  an empty shapefile supporting shapes of the given type. 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 shp_file and attempting to create the  files  shp_file.shp  or  shp_file.SHP,  and  shp_file.shx  or
       shp_file.SHX  for  the  respective  data and index files. The supported values for the shapetype argument
       are: point, arc, polygon, and multipoint.

OPTIONS

       shp_file
              the name of the shapefile to be created. Doesn´t need the extension

       point|arc|polygon|multipoint
              the type of shapefile that you wish to create. Must specify a valid option.

EXAMPLE

       shpcreate testpolygon polygon

       this will create a polygon shapefile named testpolygon (in fact testpolygon.shp and testpolygon.shx  will
       be created).

EXIT STATUS

       0      Successful program execution.

       1      Missing shp_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:shp_file

AUTHOR

       dbfdump  is  part  of  shapelib,  maintained  by Frank Warmerdam. This guide was created by Eduardo Patoo
       Kanegae and converted to manpage by Johan Van de Wauw. It was further enhanced with the man page  written
       by Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi).

SEE ALSO

       dbfadd(1),   dbfcat(1),   dbfcreate(1),   dbfdump(1),  dbfinfo(1),  shpadd(1),  shpcat(1),  shpcentrd(1),
       shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpinfo(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)

                                                   August 2015                                      SHPCREATE(1)