NAME
shpcreate - create an empty ESRI shapefile
SYNOPSIS
shpcreate file shapetype
DESCRIPTION
Creates an empty shapefile supporting shapes of the given type
shapetype. Shapefiles actually consist of two files with the same
basename and extensions .shp and .shx (or .SHP and .SHX) containing the
shape data and shape index respectively. The files to create are
determined by first stripping any filename extension from file and
attempting to create the files file.shp or file.SHP, and file.shx or
file.SHX for the respective data and index files. The supported values
for the shapetype argument are: point, arc, polygon, and multipoint.
EXIT STATUS
0 Successful program execution.
1 Missing file or shapetype argument.
2 Unknown shapetype.
3 Unable to create the shapefile.
DIAGNOSTICS
The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:
Shape Type ‘shapetype’ not recognised.
Unable to create:file
AUTHORS
Frank Warmerdam (warmerdam@pobox.com) is the maintainer of the shapelib
shapefile library. Joonas Pihlaja (jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi) wrote this
man page.
SEE ALSO
dbfadd(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbf_dump(1), shpadd(1),
shpdump(1), shprewind(1)