shptreevis(1)

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version 8.6.5 · 7 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

✨ shptreevis — okay bestie, let's go LOOK at your quadtrees ✨

Hi hi hi 💖 so you know that shptree utility? The one that builds a .qix file? Yeah. This little icon of a program, shptreevis, is the one that lets you actually see the quadtree quadrants that live inside that .qix file. No cap, it's giving "reveal the hidden structure" ✨🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

shptreevis shapefile new_shapefile

Two arguments. That's it. She's low maintenance, she's efficient, she's that girl. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, bestie 🍓: shptreevis can be used to view the quadtree quadrants that are part of a .qix file — and that .qix file is the one that was created with the shptree utility. So like, shptree makes it, shptreevis shows it to you. A whole collaborative moment. 🫶

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • shapefile — the name of the .shp file index. Yes, that's the one with the quadtree goodness in it.
  • new_shapefile — the name of the .shp file to create. You're making a whole new baby shapefile out here. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

Okay watch this, it's literally two seconds:

shptreevis us_states.shp quad.shp

This new LSB index supports a shapefile with 2895 shapes, 10 depth

Result: a Shape data set named quad.shp is created. 🎉 And now? You can view this Shape data set in a desktop GIS (such as QGIS, for example) to see the quadtrees that were created with the shptree command. Like, go look at it!! Look at her!!! 😭💖

Here's the shptreevis result displayed in QGIS ⟨http://mapserver.org/_images/shptreevis-example.png⟩

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Go read those too, iykyk 📚✨

Friendly reminder from your local Unix bestie: the shapefile you pass in is the index source, and new_shapefile is the brand new file you're creating — don't mix them up, or you'll be sad. 🙈

And that's the whole page, bestie! 💅 This lovely piece of shptreevis(1) from the shptreevis manual was last touched on 22 August 2026 — she's iconic, she's timeless, she's fr fr built different. Now go forth and visualize those quadrants. Slay. 👑💖✨

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