ShapeLib is a C library for development of applications to read/write ESRI ShapeFiles. It’s used by many FOSS-GIS projects and at its website you can also find bindings for Perl, Python, Ruby, Delphi, Tcl, .NET and PHP. ShapeLib package also include some nice tools for Shapefile handling. These tools are simple and powerfull command line gadgets that output messages at the console or generate new shapefiles.
This page is an updated version of “ShapeLib Tools – User Guide” created in 2004.
Take the following situation:
What to do? ArcMap->Load large shapefile->Set Defintion Query->Export to new shapefile? In a pig´s eye!
Because I´m not an Arc power user, I always have some FOSSGIS with me:
Before Microsoft SQL Server 2005 comes up, users of this database wanting to handle spatial data had basically 3 options:
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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation proudly announced that version 5.0 of MapServer web mapping platform is available for download from the project website.
MapServer 5.0 is the first major release since version 4.0 in July of 2003. While there have been regular releases every 6 months or so this is the first time developers felt the new feature set warranted the “major release” label.
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