[gdal-dev] Re: Fwd: merging shapefiles larger than 4GB

2011-05-03 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Harsha Ch gmail.com> writes: > > > Thanks all for the replies and pointers. Jukka I am curious how were you able to merge upto 8GB shape files Sorry about being unclear. I was appending shapefiles into Spatialite database instead of merging shapefiles because I met the absolut limit of 4 GB fi

Re: [gdal-dev] Re: Fwd: merging shapefiles larger than 4GB

2011-05-03 Thread Harsha Ch
Thanks all for the replies and pointers. Jukka I am curious how were you able to merge upto 8GB shape files I am using mapnik to render shape files its able to read shape files larger than 4Gb. I tried ogr2ogr to merge shape files which its failing after file size reached to 4G. I looked at the tic

[gdal-dev] Re: Fwd: merging shapefiles larger than 4GB

2011-05-02 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Brian Wilson wildsong.biz> writes: > > I am afraid you are out of luck, the shapefile format restricts its size to 32 bit. See bytes 24-27http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShapefileEven if the SHP part was not so restricted, I bet the DBF part is. Actually the SHP part is setting the limit. DBF par