export vector gis

export vector gis

The export vector gis module will create a file in one of the following vector formats: ESRI Shapefile (*.shp); GMT ASCII Vectors (*.gmt); and MapInfo TAB (*.tab).

Although C Tech allows non-ASCII analyte names, ESRI does not. Please see this link on acceptable shapefile field (attribute) names. It basically says that only A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and “_” are allowed. The only thing we can do when writing a shapefile is to change any unacceptable (non-ASCII) character to “_” and add a number if there are more than one.

If you plan to create a shapefile it will be better to change the analyte names to an ASCII equivalent that is more meaningful, but uses on the acceptable character set.