Timeline for Reducing file size of shapefile?
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| Mar 21, 2018 at 20:20 | answer | added | RobShrk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 18, 2017 at 21:12 | comment | added | user30184 | The shapefile specification does not set the 2 GB limit esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf and therefore GDAL can make up to 8 GB .shp part and .dbf part with no limits gdal.org/drv_shapefile.html. But if ESRI interprets that 2 GB per component is the maximum support.esri.com/technical-article/000010813 then it must be considered right. | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 16:38 | comment | added | bugmenot123 | GDAL can handle bigger files just fine. | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 19:14 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 16:37 | answer | added | jbgramm | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 15:04 | answer | added | Vince | timeline score: 13 | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 14:29 | comment | added | Matte | What software produced the shape-file? As Vince said that is not standard conform. And it would be the safest way to export it in several parts then from the original source. Everything else might corrupt the data in a way you might not even recognize at first (common problem is missmatching of dbf records to geometry objects). | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 12:53 | comment | added | Vince |
If the file size if either the .shp or .dbf exceeds 2.1Gb, you don't have a shapefile, you just have a file with a .shp suffix.
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 9:27 | comment | added | bugmenot123 | Can you or can you not somehow alter the data? If not, this quesion is dead in the water. Please post the sizes of the .shp and .dbf files. | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 5:51 | comment | added | Midavalo♦ | Please edit your question to include any response to comments. | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 5:51 | comment | added | Midavalo♦ | Welcome to GIS SE! You mention in a comment below that your server accepts SHP, MDB, and GDB. Are you using ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap)? Have you tried importing your data into a File Geodatabase, and then running the Compact and Compress tools on it? What type of records are they? Point/line/polygon? What type of attributes - are there a lot of fields? | |
| Apr 16, 2017 at 5:48 | history | edited | Midavalo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2017 at 5:01 | history | asked | Ali | CC BY-SA 3.0 |