'''Procedure to batch load shapefiles on window pc'''[[BR]] I have often many shapefiles to load on postgres/postgis.[[BR]] Even 50, 100 shapefile every time.[[BR]] So I will need a procedure to load all simply on a windows 7 machine. [[BR]] This batch file is my simply but very useful solution. [[BR]] Create a file named "load_shapefiles.bat" and put this code: ---- {{{ REM ******************************************************************* REM ** Simple batch procedure for Windows shell-dos (Win7 compatible)** REM ** for batch load of a list of shapefiles on a Postgres/Postgis ** REM ** database. ** REM ** ** REM ** usage: ** REM ** Create a directory for the shapefiles ** REM ** Create a directory for the resulting sql-files ** REM ** Set the variable PATH_SHP with the path forward the shapefiles** REM ** Set the variable PATH_PSQL forward the psql.exe ** REM ** Set the variable PATH_SHP2SQL forward the sh2pgsql.exe ** REM ** Set the variable PATH_SQL with the path forward the directory ** REM ** where will be output the sql files ** REM ** Set the pghost variale with the address of the server Postgres** REM ** Set the pgport variable with the port of the istance postgres ** REM ** Set the pgdb variable with the database target ** REM ** Set the pgsrid variable with the SRID for the shapefiles ** REM ** Set the pggeom variable with the name to usage for the ** REM ** "geometry" field will be create ** REM ** Set the pgencoding variable with the Encoding to use ** REM ** Set the pgschema variable with the target schema for tables ** REM ** Set the pgtable variale with av optionally prefix to apply ** REM ** to all the tables will be create ** REM ** Set the pguser variable with the user account ** REM ** Set the pgpassword with the password for the account ** REM ** ** REM ** After all these setting (whew....) ** REM ** Fortunately all these settings will remain for all other loads** REM ** you will need to do :) ** REM ** open a shell dos and launch ** REM ** load_shapefiles.bat ** REM ** and wait for the result .... :) ** REM ** ** REM ******************************************************************* set PATH_SHP=D:\dbtopo\tools_postgres\procedura_caricamento_shapefiles\shapefiles set PATH_PSQL=C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.0\bin\psql.exe set PATH_SHP2SQL=C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.0\bin\shp2pgsql.exe set PATH_SQL=D:\dbtopo\tools_postgres\procedura_caricamento_shapefiles\sql set pghost=localhost set pgport=5432 set pgdb=dblotto2 set pgsrid=3003 set pggeom=geom set pgencoding="UTF-8" set pgschema=public set pgtable_prefix="the_prefix" set pguser=the_account_username set pgpassword=the_account_password REM "Scan shapefile and create the SQL file" for %%f in (%PATH_SHP%\*.shp) do "%PATH_SHP2SQL%" -s %pgsrid% -d -g %pggeom% -D -i -I -W %pgencoding% %%f %pgschema%.%pgtable_prefix%_%%~nf > %PATH_SQL%\%%~nf.sql REM "Scan the SQL file and load them in the DB Postgres" for %%f in (%PATH_SQL%\*.sql) do "%PATH_PSQL%" -h %pghost% -p %pgport% -d %pgdb% -L %%~nxf.log -U %pguser% -f %%f REM "Scan the SQL files and remove all them (to return to the original configuration in the file-system" for %%f in (%PATH_SQL%\*.sql) do del %%f }}} ---- Regards to all, Andrea Peri.