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
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.
- http://www.nrdb.co.uk/nrdbview/
- http://www.forestpal.com/blog/?p=21