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.TH SHAPEINDEX 1 "January 11, 2007"
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.SH NAME
shapeindex \- program to creates file system based index for ESRI shapefiles
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B shapeindex
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B shapeindex
command.
.PP
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\fBshapeindex\fP 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.
.SH OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-\-shape-index
Index individual shape parts (default: no)
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-verbose
Show verbose output.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-depth [arg]
Specify maximum tree depth (default 8)
.TP
.B \-r, \-\-ratio [arg]
Specify split ratio (default 0.55)
.TP
.B \-\-shape_files [file1 file2..fileN]
Specify shape files to index
.SH AUTHOR
shapeindex was written by Artem Pavlenko.
.PP
This manual page was written by Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).