Jelmer Baas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a way to remove or hide a shape in a shape file. I'm
> using MapServer to draw it, so it needs to be supported by MapServer,
> too.
>
> The PDF found on the shapelib page shows there's a shapetype 0 (Null
> Shape), can't that somehow be used? Otherwise overwrite the style to
> have a width of 0, something like that? I find it hard to believe that
> ESRI apps rewrite the entire file when a single object is deleted...
>
> Despite already finding evidence that it's not possible
> (
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/shapelib/2004-May/000074.html), I
> wanted to ask it nonetheless.
Jelmer,
The normal approach to this is to call DBFMarkRecordDeleted() which flips
the bit in the DBF file marking a record as deleted. However, I see no
evidence that the MapServer native shapefile code checks the deleted
marker so this isn't likely to help you with MapServer.
I think replacing the shape with a SHPT_NULL shape is the next best
alternative.
Best regards,
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