Hi, Thanks a lot for the quick help. I am a PHP/Java guy. I shall try my luck with some sort of PHP scripting as I need a solution fairly quickly. I had made the suggestion of shifting to a PostGIS system quite some time back but I guess you know how it is with approvals :)
Thanks again, Varun On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 3, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Varun saraf wrote: > >> Hi Puneet, >> >> Thanks a lot for the prompt reply. I tried using Excel 2007 and was >> not able to re-save the dbf file after editing. Also, I am having DBF >> files with about a million records and Excel tends to hang for these >> operations. > > > Now you tell us ;-). My sense is that most gui-based tools will choke on > million+ rows. You might well want to "upgrade" to a Pg/PostGIS solution at > some point, but I realize that is not what you are asking for... (also, I > believe the most recent Excel versions might have lost the DBF translation > capabilities -- I am not an Excel person, so I can't confirm... besides, I > use Macs, and Excel is most likely hobbled on Macs anyway). > > >> Is there some tool other than Excel which can do these >> operations? > > > I remember using Perl and XBase.pm to do this. It was really very quick and > trivial, but it was a long time ago. Choose your language of choice. Try R. > > > > >> >> Thanks, >> Varun >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On May 3, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Varun saraf wrote: >>> >>>> ..Is there a DBF editor out >>>> there that can be used to import the fields from any external data >>>> source into the shapefile attribute DBF without affecting the >>>> structure? I looked for a lot but they do not have the capability of >>>> doing a JOIN based on a common field and pulling data into the >>>> shapefile DBF automatically. >>> >>> Just use MS-Excel or any program that can open up and write DBF. As long as >>> you are careful to not change the number of rows, just add additional >>> columns, and make sure the column names are not changed, and follow the >>> various DBF limitations, you should be ok. Make sure to keep a backup of >>> the original DBF in case things go ka-pow! >>> >>> Since the DBF data and the geometry are in separate files, there is no >>> issue with adding more attributes provide you follow the care noted above. >>> .. >>> >>> >>> >>> Puneet. > > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
