Thanks Jody,

At the moment I am just generating shapefiles that can be used to test the 
performance of a preexisting system. The requirements state I only need the 
files I mentioned in the original email. I was hoping that I could limit the 
production of files to exactly what I required (hoping for a little performance 
gain) since I will be generating 200,000+ and the extraneous files will pile up 
quickly. It isn't too much of a bother for me to take care of these files upon 
generation. I guess that's what I will do ;)

Thanks again for your quick reply,
Craig Kost

-----Original Message-----
From: Jody Garnett [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:44 PM
To: Craig KOST
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Writing shapefiles (hinder generation of 
.fix, .prj and .qix files)

I stand corrected.

This page (http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTDOC/Shapefile+Plugin)
documents a key you can use to disable the creation of the spatial index. So 
that is one file you can opt out of - the others are useful information that is 
not duplicated anywhere else. I know many organizations have a default 
projection that they just assume for all their data - are you in a similar 
situation?

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jody Garnett<[email protected]> wrote:
> This is the first time this request has been made (so no there is not 
> a facility for this). I cannot remember what "fix" is for; but the 
> "prj" file is needed by any software that is going to use your 
> shapefile; the "qix" file is a spatial index which can be generated 
> from your "shp" file again if needed - it really makes the difference 
> between having spatial file (and having just a flat file) in terms of 
> performance.
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Craig KOST<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a question regarding the creation of Shapefile(s) using the 
>> ShapefileDataStore. So far I have successfully created the shape 
>> files I am interested in creating; however, there seems to be more 
>> file types generated than what are actually needed.
>>
>> What I need:
>> <rootname>.shp
>> <rootname>.shx
>> <rootname>.dbf
>>
>> What I don't need:
>> <rootname>.fix
>> <rootname>.prj
>> <rootname>.qix
>>
>> I guess my question is... is there anyway to indicate which file 
>> types to output on generation?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Craig
>>
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