Ian,
Ian Turton wrote: > > I don't know the answer to this but I can't help wondering why the > line order of the shapefile is important to you? You can just treat it > as a pile of data - I'm pretty sure that you need to read the whole > file to do anything with it anyway so order isn't important. > I've written a simple application for importing data in a particular format and converting it to a shapefile. The aim is to simply a lengthy work-flow where my client currently manually hacks away at a text file, stripping the header and adjusting the columns ready for importing as XY data into ArcMap, then exporting as a shapefile. This results in a shapefile in which the line ordering remains intact. I agree that the ordering of the shapefile isn't really important, but it would be *nice* for my client to have the same result at the end of both workflows. So if it is possible, and there existing methods in GeoTools to acheive it, then I'd like to give it a try. Even if it does mean slowing down the application a bit. If not then I'll just stick in an ID number so that the rows can be sorted to their original order if need be. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Maintaining-line-order-when-creating-a-shapefile-tp5537984p5549701.html Sent from the geotools-gt2-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
