Graphical user interface for shp2pgsql
shp2pgsql-gui [options]
This manual page documents briefly the shp2pgsql-gui command.
shp2pgsql-gui is a program that converts ESRI Shape files into SQL statements and imports these statements to a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. The GUI allows the user to set the shape file to import, the PostGIS/PostgreSQL connection parameters and some options related to the table where the data will be imported to.
shp2pgsql-gui can be called with some command line options that fill the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server connection parameters in.
-d database
Specifies the name of the database where the data will be imported to.
-h host
Specifies the host name of the machine on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is running.
-p port
Specifies the TCP port on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is listening for connections.
-U username
Specifies the username with which the user will connect to the database.
-W password
Specifies the password with which the user will connect to the database.
-?
Shows help about shp2pgsql-gui command line arguments.
The documentation of pgsql2shp, shp2pgsql and shp2pgsql-gui in HTML format is available on the filesystem at /usr/share/doc/postgis.
shp2pgsql-gui was written by Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> and Mark Cave-Ayland <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Mònica Ramírez Arceda <[email protected]>, for the Debian project. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 and any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.