[Shapelib] Example of how to create a shapefile

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 3/15/06, Kleymeyer, Alan <AKleymeyer at overwatch.com> wrote:

> which appears to create the .SHP & .SHX just fine.
>
> However ArcMap fails to load it reporting "Error opening feature class"
>
> I assume because I haven't created a .DBF file.
>
> What exactly do I need to write to the .DBF file?

Alan,

When I want to create a shapefile, but don't have any meaningful
attributes, I normally create a dbf file with one integer column that
I write an id to.   You can skim the dbfcreate and dbfadd programs
for a bit of an indication of how to use the dbf api.

Make sure you have one row in the dbf file for each shape object
created.

Best regards,


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