I am afraid you are out of luck, the shapefile format restricts its size to 32 bit. See bytes 24-27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile Even if the SHP part was not so restricted, I bet the DBF part is. Cheers Brian On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Harsha Ch <harsha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am using ogr2ogr merge all my shapefiles into one large file. Its > failing with following error > ERROR 1: Failed to write shape object. File size cannot reach 4294967280 + > 28. > ERROR 1: Terminating translation prematurely after failed > > I looked at shapefil.h its using unsigned int for filesize which would > restrict the filesize to 4GB. > Is there any easy way to increase the filesize it can address, compiling in > 64bit doesn't help either. > I'll appreciate if you can give me any pointers on this issue . > > Thanks, > Harsha >
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