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.