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List:       postgis-users
Subject:    [postgis-users] asKML
From:       Andy Anderson <aanderson () amherst ! edu>
Date:       2008-05-27 20:20:45
Message-ID: 7A6987DF-9FEB-4A98-AD97-F90E1F680B52 () amherst ! edu
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I've been working around one minor issue and it occurred to me that  
someone here might be able to explain the rationale for its design.

I start with a shapefile of US states, which to me appears to be a set  
of multipolygons, one for each state. So, for example, Hawaii is a  
single multipolygon containing 27 polygons (at this scale).

I then use shp2pgsql to produce a table of polygons, and Hawaii ends  
up as 27 multipolygons each containing one polygon!

Is there a good reason for this? Or do I have a misconception about  
how Hawaii is being stored in the shapefile?

Thanks,

-- Andy

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