shapewrite
Write geographic vector data structure to shapefile
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The xBASE (
.dbf
) file specifications require that geostruct and mapstruct attribute names are truncated to 11 characters when copied as DBF field names. Consider shortening long field names before callingshapewrite
. By doing this, you make field names in the DBF file more readable and avoid introducing duplicate names as a result of truncation.Remember to set your character encoding scheme to match that of the geographic data structure you are exporting. For instance, if you are exporting a map that displays Japanese text, configure your machine to support
Shift-JIS
character encoding.