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)
