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shptreevis - view the quadtree quadrants of a .qix file


shptreevis
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).

The name of the .shp file index.
The name of the .shp file to create.

shptreevis us_states.shp quad.shp
This new LSB index supports a shapefile with 2895 shapes, 10 depth

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.

shptreevis result displayed in QGIS
⟨http://mapserver.org/_images/shptreevis-example.png⟩

shptree(1), shptreetst(1), sortshp(1)

18 January 2023