Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html

Mike:

We usually do a lot of import from Shape here, and to round off your
success, I can recommend to export as lines (Tools, Line/Area conversion)
and then back again from lines into polygons, then all the duplicates
segments will be removed by Maptitude (am I correct Peter?). If the
original file is too wrong, we get better results while exporting to
another format (in that case use just Tools, Export) different from the
one that has the offending objects (almost always the cause of the error
is bad topology, not required by ArcView; try ArcInfo, or AtlasGIS). Then,
if you have attributes, you will have to export the Geocodification
separately, as centroids, and then built it up again using Fill, Tag in
the dataview. You can use one of the above steps to export or import in
the correct projection/coordinate system as well.

Good luck!

Reinaldo

Michael Powell wrote:

> 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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