Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
Is there anything specific about the dBase/xBase (DBF) files used in shapefile
sets or the way that you'd use them?
If not, we can probably just convert this to a request for a generic xBase
import/export capability.
Original comment by tfmorris
on 11 Nov 2010 at 5:06
A generic xBase import/export is the request. Open the fileName.dbf, perform
some 'refine' magic to the data, and write/save back to fileName.dbf so the
shapefile set works as usual. The first record in the .dbf file corresponds to
the first record in the .shp and .shx files, so the GIS-refine user would need
to make sure to pay attention not to delete rows or shift up/down rows, which
would seldom be the case... mostly always ever need to edit the columns and the
cell data itself.
Eric Jarvies
Original comment by 7...@ericjarvies.com
on 11 Nov 2010 at 5:29
Original comment by tfmorris
on 11 Nov 2010 at 5:56
Anyone used XBaseJ before? http://xbasej.sourceforge.net/
Would it be appropriate as an xBase parser we could wrap an importer around?
Original comment by iainsproat
on 11 Nov 2010 at 6:05
Haven't used it, but it looks like it'll work!
http://xbasej.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/javadbf/
Eric Jarvies
Original comment by 7...@ericjarvies.com
on 11 Nov 2010 at 6:22
I'm wondering if any progress has been made on this. This would be of huge
benefit to a project I'm involved in..
Original comment by neale.st...@gmail.com
on 25 May 2012 at 2:21
Neale, it might be a long while. You might want to use a copy of MS Access to
import the DBF files and export those back out to CSV. Another tool that could
also accomplish this would be Talend Open Studio.
Original comment by thadguidry
on 25 May 2012 at 4:15
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
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