Timeline for Are there any attempts to replace the shapefile? [closed]
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 6:58 | history | closed | PolyGeo♦ | Needs more focus | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 6:58 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2016 at 16:19 | answer | added | Stefan | timeline score: 11 | |
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| Feb 22, 2012 at 20:32 | answer | added | geographika | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 21:59 | comment | added | Uffe Kousgaard | If DBF or SHP goes beyond 2 GB you are likely to run into problems on many systems. Beyond 4 GB won't work with SHP at all and I think DBF would have the same problem. In theory it should work, but in reality most software is using signed 32-bit integers for opening them. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 21:35 | vote | accept | canisrufus | ||
| Feb 21, 2012 at 20:03 | comment | added | djq | @RagiYaserBurhum I see. 4GBs bad, 2GBs good. Interestingly the shapefile size limited the file size I could loading into PostGIS (on Win 32bit). Completely separate problem, but it made me pay attention to how big my file was. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 19:08 | comment | added | Ragi Yaser Burhum | @celenius From gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html "Geometry: The Shapefile format explicitly uses 32bit offsets and so cannot go over 8GB (it actually uses 32bit offsets to 16bit words). Hence, it is is not recommended to use a file size over 4GB. Attributes: The dbf format does not have any offsets in it, so it can be arbitrarily large." So you can have dbfs that are pretty big, but you have to be careful with your shp going over 4GB. Then you are playing with fire. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 18:46 | comment | added | djq | @Mapperz Are you certain about the 2GB file limit for shapefiles? I generated some shapefiles that were 3GB recently and was able to open them in ArcMap. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 18:21 | comment | added | Ragi Yaser Burhum | @PolyGeo you and everyone else :) | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 18:03 | history | edited | underdark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2012 at 17:51 | answer | added | Stéphane Henriod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 4:16 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | Would like to see Python API to read/write File Geodatabase (at least Simple Features) without ArcGIS license - that would be Open. | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 1:52 | comment | added | Ragi Yaser Burhum | @canisrufus technically, you can also use the ArcObjects driver gdal.org/ogr/drv_ao.html that writes to any ESRI supported format (as long as you have an ESRI license). | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 1:46 | answer | added | Ragi Yaser Burhum | timeline score: 52 | |
| Feb 21, 2012 at 1:23 | comment | added | canisrufus | Ah, an important difference. | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 23:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGIS/status/171739876880957440 | ||
| Feb 20, 2012 at 22:20 | comment | added | Mapperz♦ | Shapefiles and Personal Geodatabases (an MS Access table) are limited to 2GB. That is not very much data in today's terms... so would recommend File Geodatabases | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 22:17 | comment | added | canisrufus | Oops, I searched this doc table for "geodatabase" and read that it won't write personal geodatabases. I missed that it writes FileGDBs. | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 22:12 | comment | added | Mapperz♦ | You can write and read geodatabases (via API) using GDAL gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html using resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/file-gdb-api | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 21:23 | comment | added | canisrufus | @Mapperz Other than the recently released Geodatabase API, I don't see any tools for writing a geodatabase that are free. I don't think this could count as a replacement except in the ESRI portion of the world. | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | Mapperz♦ | Geodatabase? but then the shapefile never had true topology. | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 20:51 | answer | added | Uffe Kousgaard | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 20:50 | answer | added | Kirk Kuykendall | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 20:45 | answer | added | johanvdw | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 20:02 | history | asked | canisrufus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |