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.TH SHP2PGSQL-GUI 1 "January 14, 2012" "" "PostGIS"
.SH NAME
shp2pgsql-gui \- Graphical User Interface for shp2pgsql
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B shp2pgsql-gui
.RI [ options ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B shp2pgsql-gui
command.
.PP
.B shp2pgsql-gui
is a program that converts ESRI Shape files into SQL statements and imports these statements to a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. The GUI allows the user to set the shape file to import, the PostGIS/PostgreSQL connection parameters and some options related to the table where the data will be imported to.
.PP
.B shp2pgsql-gui
can be called with some command line options that fill the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server connection parameters in.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -d \fIdatabase\fP
Specifies the name of the database where the data will be imported to.
.TP
.B -h \fIhost\fP
Specifies the host name of the machine on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is running.
.TP
.B -p \fIport\fP
Specifies the TCP port on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is listening for connections.
.TP
.B -U \fIusername\fP
Specifies the username with which the user will connect to the database.
.TP
.B -W \fIpassword\fP
Specifies the password with which the user will connect to the database.
.TP
.B -?
Shows help about shp2pgsql-gui command line arguments.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
shp2pgsql(1), pgsql2shp(1)
The documentation of pgsql2shp, shp2pgsql and shp2pgsql-gui in HTML format is available on the filesystem at /usr/share/doc/postgis.
.SH AUTHOR
shp2pgsql-gui was written by Paul Ramsey <pramsey@opengeo.org> and Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica@probeta.net>, for the Debian project. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 and any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
.PP
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
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