ESRI Shapefiles use the ancient DBF format for attribute data. DBFs
restricts the length of field names. When I have to work with Shapefiles, I
try to stick to 8-character field names and avoid spaces and special
characters.
-Eric
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Eric B. Wolf
that shapefiles support dates.
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> Best,
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> Jason
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[mailto:gdal-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter J Halls
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:15 AM
To: Oz Nahum
Cc: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] field name in ESRI file
Oz,
shapefiles use the dBase IV forma
Oz,
shapefiles use the dBase IV format .dbf file for attributes: this defines the
maximum field name width to be 10 characters - 'LAND USE CODE' has 13. Also,
space characters are not permitted - use underscore '_' instead. Whilst GDAL
may create the field names as you have specified, othe
Hello GDAL Devs,
I encoutered a small problem, where I don't understand why field names in
ESRI Shape files created by gdal, are truncated.
Here is a code snippet:
field_LUC = ogr.FieldDefn()
field_LUC.SetName('LAND USE CODE')
field_LUC.SetType(ogr.OFTInteger)
field_LUC.SetWidth(1
