NAME

shpinfo - Displays basic information for a given shapefile

SYNOPSIS

shpinfo shapefile

DESCRIPTION

Displays basic information for a given shapefile, like shapefile type, number of objects and its extents.

OPTIONS

shapefile

The name of an existing shapefile.

EXAMPLE

shpinfo testpolygon

Info for testpolygon
Polygon(5), 1 Records in file
File Bounds: (         100000,        6000000)


        (         250000,        7000000)

AUTHOR

shpinfo is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam. This guide was created by Eduardo Patoo Kanegae and converted to manpage by Johan Van de Wauw.

SEE ALSO

dbfadd(1), dbfcat(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbfinfo(1), shpadd(1), shpcat(1), shpcentrd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)