[Geoserver-users] Merge shape files

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I know it is now a geoserver question, but probably you guys can help me…

Is there a tool/script to merge several shape files into a single file?

Or geoserver have a better option?

The thing is we have a product where each clients give us a disk with serveral shape files and we need to create a single layer… we want to create a script that merges the files in batch so the geoserver configuration would be easier…

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Hi Johan,

You can definitely do this with geotools. The code should be relatively straight forward. One thing worth checking out is the geoscript [1] project, one of its goals is to make things like this as simple as possible. You may also want to consider merging all the files into postgis. If the schema of all the shapefiles files is the same you can use the shp2pgsql utility that comes with postgis.

-Justin

[1] http://geoscript.org

2011/6/24 Johan Chaves Saborío <johann04@anonymised.com>

I know it is now a geoserver question, but probably you guys can help me…

Is there a tool/script to merge several shape files into a single file?

Or geoserver have a better option?

The thing is we have a product where each clients give us a disk with serveral shape files and we need to create a single layer… we want to create a script that merges the files in batch so the geoserver configuration would be easier…

All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
definitive record of customers, application performance, security
threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense…
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1

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There’s also the option to use OGR to merge shapefiles. It’s one of the examples at http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html

Edward

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:39:16 -0600
From: jdeolive@anonymised.com
To: johann04@anonymised.com
CC: geoserver-users@anonymised.comurceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Merge shape files

Hi Johan,

You can definitely do this with geotools. The code should be relatively straight forward. One thing worth checking out is the geoscript [1] project, one of its goals is to make things like this as simple as possible. You may also want to consider merging all the files into postgis. If the schema of all the shapefiles files is the same you can use the shp2pgsql utility that comes with postgis.

-Justin

[1] http://geoscript.org

2011/6/24 Johan Chaves Saborío <johann04@anonymised.com>

I know it is now a geoserver question, but probably you guys can help me…

Is there a tool/script to merge several shape files into a single file?

Or geoserver have a better option?

The thing is we have a product where each clients give us a disk with serveral shape files and we need to create a single layer… we want to create a script that merges the files in batch so the geoserver configuration would be easier…

All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
definitive record of customers, application performance, security
threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense…
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1

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Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

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Hi,
in the 2.1.1 version you can find, in the new wps extention, the UnionFeatureCollection process which merges two shape files.

http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/wps/processes.html
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/extensions/wps/install.html

Hope this can help, bye bye.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Edward Mac Gillavry <emacgillavry@anonymised.com> wrote:

There’s also the option to use OGR to merge shapefiles. It’s one of the examples at http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_shapefile.html

Edward

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:39:16 -0600
From: jdeolive@anonymised.com
To: johann04@anonymised.com
CC: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Merge shape files

Hi Johan,

You can definitely do this with geotools. The code should be relatively straight forward. One thing worth checking out is the geoscript [1] project, one of its goals is to make things like this as simple as possible. You may also want to consider merging all the files into postgis. If the schema of all the shapefiles files is the same you can use the shp2pgsql utility that comes with postgis.

-Justin

[1] http://geoscript.org

2011/6/24 Johan Chaves Saborío <johann04@anonymised.com>

I know it is now a geoserver question, but probably you guys can help me…

Is there a tool/script to merge several shape files into a single file?

Or geoserver have a better option?

The thing is we have a product where each clients give us a disk with serveral shape files and we need to create a single layer… we want to create a script that merges the files in batch so the geoserver configuration would be easier…

All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
definitive record of customers, application performance, security
threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes
sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense…
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1

Geoserver-users mailing list
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OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Enterprise support for open source geospatial.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense… http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1

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