Hey Jody, all, On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 12:37 -0700, Jody Garnett wrote: > I think the shx file is important and is what is used to tie your > geometry (ie shp) and data (ie dbf) to each other.
>From my esri days, that's not right. ArcView used to be able to regenerate a .shx file from the others, unless you created nasty topology to trip up their algorithm. The index file was, as indexes tend to be, an optimization. I think the link between the .dbf and the .shp is done by id (ie by order) but I'm not sure about that. --adrian _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
