> Kurt Heston wrote:

> Nevermind. 
> 
> I should have read the code in OJ before I tried this.  It 
> appears FIDs are newly assigned each time a shapefile is 
> opened, pretty useless when trying to tie systems together 
> with a unique ID.

That is a bit hard to do with shapefiles in any case, because they do
not keep the fids natively as far as I have undestood. If you remove a
feature from a shapefile, all features coming after that in order will
get a new fid during save.  Fixed fids are easier to acquire from
databases, but OJ does not support editing database layers.  I am not
sure what could be a good solution for you, else than making read/write
database connector to OJ.  Perhaps reading features from a well
configured WFS server attaching proper and stable FIDs (means probably
database backend in practice), and modifying WFS plugin to copy FID to a
normal attribute as well? 

-Jukka Rahkonen-
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