.TH SHP2PGSQL-GUI 1 "January 14, 2012" "" "PostGIS"

.SH NAME
shp2pgsql-gui \- Graphical User Interface for shp2pgsql

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B shp2pgsql-gui
.RI [ options ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the 
.B shp2pgsql-gui 
command.
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.B shp2pgsql-gui 
is a program that converts ESRI Shape files into SQL statements and imports these statements to a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. The GUI allows the user to set the shape file to import, the PostGIS/PostgreSQL connection parameters and some options related to the table where the data will be imported to.
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.B shp2pgsql-gui
can be called with some command line options that fill the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server connection parameters in.

.SH OPTIONS
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.B -d \fIdatabase\fP
Specifies the name of the database where the data will be imported to.
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.B -h \fIhost\fP
Specifies the host name of the machine on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is running.
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.B -p \fIport\fP
Specifies the TCP port on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is listening for connections.
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.B -U \fIusername\fP
Specifies the username with which the user will connect to the database.
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.B -W \fIpassword\fP
Specifies the password with which the user will connect to the database.
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.B -?
Shows help about shp2pgsql-gui command line arguments.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
shp2pgsql(1), pgsql2shp(1)

The documentation of pgsql2shp, shp2pgsql and shp2pgsql-gui in HTML format is available on the filesystem at /usr/share/doc/postgis.

.SH AUTHOR
shp2pgsql-gui was written by Paul Ramsey <pramsey@opengeo.org> and Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>.
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This manual page was written by Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica@probeta.net>, for the Debian project. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 and any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
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On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.