fromGeoJson() truncates property names to 8 characters

[davidbeers]

Although the SHP spec permits attribute names up to 10 characters in length (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile#Data_storage) the conversion from GeoJSON to SHP truncates them to 8 characters.

[haoliangyu]

This is unfortunately an issue of the dependency shp-write. See mapbox/shp-write#74

[davidbeers]

Thanks, I'm chiming in on the shp-write issue.

[haoliangyu]

Also see mapbox/dbf#33

[sheindel]

Hello! I'm not sure if this repo is still used/maintained, but we have finally resurrected both dbf and shp-write to resolve some of these long standing issues. Feel free to update the dependency if you see some value in it. The API should have remained the same (with a few improvements) but you may want to specify the outputType and the compression types in your call shp-write

[sheindel]

Please note that the package has changed from shp-write to @mapbox/shp-write due to changes in mapbox package organization

[haoliangyu]

@sheindel Thanks for reminding me of the update. This issue is addressed at v1.1.6.