[udig-devel] Editing shape files

[Jesse Eichar]

You need to add an attribute to an existing shapefile or edit an  
existing attribute.  Editing shapefile attributes is easy using the  
TableView.

You can also do the other option but it is slightly more  
complicated.  Here are the instructions:

1) Load your shapefile.
2) Create a New Layer with the new attribute information and the  
information from the old shapefile
3) Select original layer
4) Select all features using BBox tool
5) Edit>Copy
6) Switch to new map
7) Edit>Paste
8) Commit
9)  Save (this will save layer as a shapefile)
10) Use TableView to edit the new shapefile


Note this operation is memory bound so there is a maximum size that  
can be done.

Another and maybe simpler way is to edit the original shapefile's DBF  
file with OpenOffice.

Jesse


On May 3, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Amy Johnson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to assign attribute data to shape files. For instance, I  
> have a file of watersheds, and I need to assign the watershed names  
> to each one. Is there a tool you can recommend to do this? It  
> doesn't look like I can do this with UDig, but maybe I'm mistaken.
>
> Regards,
>
> Amy
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