...and if you use an MDB, you can change/move field names in MS Access,
which can be very handy.
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Charles Kiblinger | [email protected]
Thus spake Nate Mirin on 1/23/2009 1:06 PM:
Shapefile field names can only be 10 characters. This is a limit of the
.dbf file storing the attributes. If you want longer field names you
have to use a geodatabase feature class.
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:58:02 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [UW-GIS-L] headings in the attribute table get cut off
>
>
>
>
> Me again -
> Thanks for the help in union and intersecting - That all worked just
fine. Now I have what I want - a table with all the points in polygons
and all of their features
>
> but
>
> many of my shapefile names are very similar, for example, I'll have
> wautoma_2003_perimeter (a wildfire) and
> wautoma_2003_aerial_seeding (a treatment after a wildfire).
>
> I can't figure out how to extend the string of the headings in the
resulting unioned and intersected attribute table so that I can see all
of that information. Instead I get something along the lines of
> wautoma_200_1 and wautoma_200_2
> so that unless I write down a code seperately, I won't know which
columns are for the fire and which are for the seeding treatment.
>
> Do I have to change the name in the shape file that is saved on the
network?
> Can I change the name locally and have it save somehow?
> Can I code it in the metadata?
> Or should I just write down a code for myself to refer to every time?
>
> Thanks and have a great weekend!
>
>
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