debian man page for shapeindex

SHAPEINDEX(1)						      General Commands Manual						     SHAPEINDEX(1)

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.

       -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).

								 January 11, 2007						     SHAPEINDEX(1)