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Re: [udig-devel] Data Format, Text Delimited
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Adrian, thanks so much for the concise and specific work-around. I
have some meetings this afternoon but will use your process tonight.
You are correct on styling the maps to attributes. Thanks again for
all you and others are doing to make this a very good application for
non-GIS newbies. Expanding the universe of people who can make use of
uDIG helps educate them to what is possible and we all win...John
On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:
John,
As a workaround for now, you might be able to use OOcalc to edit the
dBase file directly. I just tried and it works.
Shapefiles come in sets with the same base name and different
extensions. All of the attribute data in shapefiles reside in the .dbf
file. OpenOffice.org's Calc spreadsheet can read and write .dbf files.
So you can open up the .dbf file as well as your data file, sort them
into a similar order, paste your data into the .dbf file and save that
file. Then, when you open your shapefile into uDig, the data will
appear.
Next you're going to want to style your maps according to the
attributes, aren't you? Well we just can't quite to that yet either
but
are getting close.
--adrian
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