i believe my stackoverflow scenario hit a wall because my for loop named each of the bound objects d and the fixIDs function automatically fixes an invalid ID by adding the object name on the front. so the loop worked the first few times, but eventually a duplicated ID was re-named to another ID that had been previously-de-duplicated.
this patch simply continues looping until all duplicates are confirmed to be gone
i moved the broken_IDs thing out of the if-else block, but i'm not sure if that will cause other problems?
i believe my stackoverflow scenario hit a wall because my for loop named each of the bound objects
dand the fixIDs function automatically fixes an invalid ID by adding the object name on the front. so the loop worked the first few times, but eventually a duplicated ID was re-named to another ID that had been previously-de-duplicated.this patch simply continues looping until all duplicates are confirmed to be gone
i moved the broken_IDs thing out of the if-else block, but i'm not sure if that will cause other problems?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26357580/how-to-combine-state-level-shapefiles-from-the-united-states-census-bureau-into