Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
Peter:
Thanks for your response. You were right (as usual).
By "un-checking" the box the shapefile was
successfully imported. Of course, I fouled up the
projection so the city is now in no-where land and is
10 times its correct size, but that's my problem.
Thanks for your help.
Mike
--- "Peter H. Van Demark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maptitude -
> http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
>
> Mike:
>
> >Recently I tried to open/import ArcView shapefiles
> in
> >Maptitude 4.1. Some of the files opened (and
> >converted to .dbd) fine, but two larger ones
> returned
> >an error message and could not be opened. FYI, one
> of
> >the shapefiles had about 225,000 records and 75
> >fields. The file size was about 19 megs. Has
> anyone
> >had a similar experience, could it be due to the
> size
> >of the files, and is there a way to fix the
> problem?
>
> Were they areas? If so, the default is to build
> topology. By removing the
> check from the Eliminate duplicate boundary lines
> box, the areas will be
> imported as polygons, which requires far less
> processing and memory. There
> will only be a few things that you cannot do with a
> non-topological .DBD
> file, such as merging by value.
>
> Peter
>
>
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