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Road Shapefile names

I have a shapefile with a road network and it seems that all roads are listed as 1 large polyline. Is this typical, is it possible to get a road network where roads are listed individually and with names associated with them?

thank you jeff

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If someone sent me a road shape where all the roads were one polyline, I would assume that the person was playing jokes on me.

Typically, a useful road shapefile should at least be split into one line for each defined road, or better yet, into intersection segment segments between intersections.

It is not a trivial task to split one polyline into a more useful multi-segment shapefile.



Doing a quick Google search returns several free shapefile editors, though I can't vouch for any of them. I am using my company's own codebase written in C # using Tatuk to work with shapefiles.

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