shptest: Create some shapefiles for testing

SYNOPSIS

shptest num

DESCRIPTION

Writes out a shapefile consisting of files testnum.shp and testnum.shx in the current directory. The num argument specifies the type of shapes in the shapefile to create and takes values from:

0: NullShape
1: Point
2: PointZ
3: PointM
4: MultiPoint
5: MultiPointZ
6: MultiPointM
7: Arc
8: ArcZ
9: ArcM
10: Polygon
11: PolygonZ
12: PolygonM
13: MultiPatch

EXIT STATUS

0: Successful program execution.
1: Missing argument.
10: Test `num' not recognised.

DIAGNOSTICS

The following diagnostics may be issued on stdout:

Test `num' not recognised.

AUTHORS

Frank Warmerdam ([email protected]) is the maintainer of the shapelib shapefile library. Joonas Pihlaja ([email protected]) wrote this man page.

RELATED TO shptest…

dbfadd(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbf_dump(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shprewind(1)