Spliting shapefiles per column values
Take the following situation:
- a large shapefile. E.g.: municipalities for a given country or, in my case, a collection of forestry stands grouped by projects - all stands for a given region
- the need of spliting this shapefile per a given column ( e.g.: state, forest project ID)
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:
