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Hi

I am writing attributes to a shapefile, but the attribute names are being shortened to 10 Characters. Is there a way to stop this?

Thanks in advance

Martin

That is correct, the shape file is limited to a maximum field name length of 10 characters.

See also the wikipedia entry on shape file data storage.

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