[Gvsig_english] QUESTION gvSIG 1.9 (BN 1253) -- Can you automatically split a vector layer based on an attribute in a field?

[Antonio Falciano]

Il 05/05/2010 9.09, Benjamin Ducke ha scritto:
> SEXTANTE has a tool "Separate entities" in its vector
> layers toolbox that does exactly what you are looking for.

Hi all,
a good starting point could be using "Separate entities" tool in
SEXTANTE, however it's a bit buggy (see ticket 960 [1]). It
substantially explodes the input layer into N output layers, where N is
the number of features contained in the input layer, without taking in
count that there could be many features with the same field value.
Instead, I should use a batch file with ogr2ogr exploiting the -sql option.

Cheers,
Antonio

> Il 05/05/2010 6.45, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a shapefile of points representing the known locations of 20-30
>> species.
>>
>> Is their any way I can point a routine at a table field and have it
>> create multiple shapefiles based on the values in this field,
>> essentially creating separate shapefiles for each species?


[1] http://forge.osor.eu/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=960

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