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shapeindex(1)

shapeindex1

Program to creates file system based index for esri shapefiles

Usage

shapeindex [options]

Overview

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

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 9 (Stretch): the text shown here
  • Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

--shape-index since Debian 9 (Stretch).

Author

shapeindex was written by Artem Pavlenko.

This manual page was written by Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From mapnik-utils 4.0.7+ds-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.