[Freegis-list] Shapefile Viewer & Attribute Editor

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:27:25PM +0200, E Perik wrote:
> been looking into Shapefile Viewers & Editors lately, but found none
> suitable for my purpose, which is 'no more' then:
> 
> * load layer (shapefile)
> * select item (polygon or point)
> * edit selected item's attribute-value's
> 
> At esri.com I stumbled upon MapObjects 2.
> Also have been looking into BlueMarbleGeo's GeoObjects. 

Both products are proprietary software.
As this list is about Free Software (as in "freedom of speech")
you cannot expect us to know software denying us the needed freedom
to use, adapt, modify and redistribute it. :)

> I have Mapserver + PHP-mapscript set up to do just what I
> want, but don't want the 'hassle' of setting up a client-server.

Well you can run this on one machine easily somewhat would assume.

> Shapefile attribute Editor's applications seem to be scarce. 

I expect that OpenMap can easily be adapted to be a simple
shapefile editor.

> Does anyone have some experience with editing database values of shapes
> / points / annotations 
> any 'tool' or even a full application ?

We expect that Thuban (currently in early 0.1.2 release)
will be extented one day to do what you want.
It already has an attribute viewing window using a powerful
table widget.


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