On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 22:17 -0800, David Carmean wrote: > Playing with Jochen's Ruby osmlib for the past couple of hours; > trying to convert osm to shapefiles. I find that the column names > I configure in the "setup" section are truncated to ten characters. > > Has anyone else run into this? This is osmlib 0.1.3.
It looks like an inherent limit in the shapefile format. Shapefiles store the column data in a DBF format file which only supports 10 characters for each field name: from http://www.dbf2002.com/dbf-file-format.html "Field Subrecords Structure Byte offset 0 - 10 Field name width with a maximum of 10 characters. If less than 10, it is padded with null characters (0x00)." Jon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk