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)