Hello, is it somehow possible to overcome the attribute name length limitiation of DBase files using GDAL? If so, how?
If not, why not add (another) file the shapefile dataset of shapes (shp, shx), projection (prj), data (dbf) and encoding(cpg), one that is (re-) defining the column names, allowing for * mixed casing, * non-ASCII characters, * more than 10/11 characters I'm aware of a software product that does it this way. The file that renames the columns is set up like a CSV file defining two columns, "Name" and "Alias". "Name" is the actual name of the column, "Alias" the name in the dbase file header. Felix Obermaier ----------------------------------------------- Ingenieurgruppe IVV GmbH & Co. KG Dipl.-Ing. Felix Obermaier Oppenhoffallee 171 52066 Aachen Telefon: +49 (241) 94691-39 Telefax: +49 (241) 531622 eMail: o...@ivv-aachen.de Internet: http://www.ivv-aachen.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: Aachen Amtsgericht Aachen HRA 6212 Geschäftsführer: Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Hölsken Dr.-Ing. Stephan Krug Dr.-Ing. Dirk Serwill IVV-Management GmbH Amtsgericht Aachen HRB 12453
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