Name headers are truncated

[macsee]

Hi,
I've a data set with name headers that are truncated to 8 chars length, however, the body data is displayed correctly. Is there any way to output more than 8 chars in headers, just like in body?
Thanks!

Cheers,
Maxi

[dioslibre]

No. It's a limitation of the DBF file format unfortunately. See this https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000007920

[davidbeers]

I have the same problem. The doc on the DBF file format says the limitation is 10 characters, but shp-write truncates field names to 8 characters.

[davidbeers]

It looks like this is a bug already reported in the mapbox/dbf package: mapbox/dbf#11

[srikanth0526]

Search for this line in the library js file f.name.split('').slice(0, 8) and replace 8 with 10. Then I could able to see the 10 character name in the shape file.

Too simple right !!!

[sheindel]

This is now fixed in dbf 0.2.0 and we hope to upgrade to that library revision change to this repo soon.

[sheindel]

Good news: v0.4.2 is now available with this fix from dbf.

Less good news: Mapbox changed their deployment organization so this package is now hosted under a different package

@mapbox/shp-write
https://unpkg.com/@mapbox/shp-write@latest/shpwrite.js