Split or save a subset of a ESRI Shape SHP file to a new file?

Posted by Eric Palakovich Carr on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Eric Palakovich Carr
Published on 2010-06-10T17:07:00Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 8:32 UTC
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I'm working with shape files in GeoDjango. Right now I'm trying to write a test for code that loads in a shape file and saves it to a database. The shape file currently has a feature count of 64,118. I'd like to reduce this to a handful so the test can quickly load it and confirm everything is right.

Since shape files aren't in a text format, is there a free application or library I can use to pluck out a handful of features and save them to a new file?

I should mention I don't have a license nor access to any of the ESRI product line.

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