---
name: "shapeindex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mapnik-utils"
version: "4.0.7+ds-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/shapeindex"
---

# shapeindex(1)

program to creates file system based index for ESRI shapefiles

## NAME

shapeindex - program to creates file system based index for ESRI shapefiles

## SYNOPSIS

**shapeindex** \[*options*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **shapeindex** command.

**shapeindex** 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.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-V, --version**

  Show version of program.

- **--shape-index**

  Index individual shape parts (default: no)

- **-v, --verbose**

  Show verbose output.

- **-d, --depth \[arg\]**

  Specify maximum tree depth (default 8)

- **-r, --ratio \[arg\]**

  Specify split ratio (default 0.55)

- **--shape\_files \[file1 file2..fileN\]**

  Specify shape files to index

## AUTHOR

shapeindex was written by Artem Pavlenko.

This manual page was written by Dominic Hargreaves \<dom@earth.li\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).