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
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Shapefile Writer Character length
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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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