View the quadtree quadrants of a .qix file
shptreevis \kx shapefile new_shapefile
shptreevis can be used to view the quadtree quadrants that are part of a .qix file (that was created with the shptree utility).
shapefile
The name of the .shp file index.
new_shapefile
The name of the .shp file to create.
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shptreevis us_states.shp quad.shp
This new LSB index supports a shapefile with 2895 shapes, 10 depth
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Result:
A Shape data set named 'quad.shp' is created. You can now view this Shape data set in a desktop GIS (such as QGIS for example) to see the quadtrees that were created with the shptree command.
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