Saving of multi-polygon shapefile into a individual polygon shapefiles

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How to separate a multi-polygon shapefile into individual polygons (as separate shapefiles)? I had huge data... I know the traditional process like export data...

Please help me...

It's not completely clear what the desired result should be. Should it be one shapefile for each original multipolygon? One Shapefile for each processed polygon? Some other rule? — underdark, Jun 24 '13 at 06:00

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 23 '13 at 11:39

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There are 2 tools in arcgis.

The multipart to single part tool in toolbox.
The explode tool on the advanced editing toolbar.

answered Jun 23 '13 at 11:39

Brad Nesom

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Does the Explode tool make individual shapefiles? or just individual shapes? – Jun 23 '13 at 16:06
It works inside of an edit session with only the selected objects. It makes single shapes of multi. You can set the split rules so it will follow rules on split. – Brad Nesom Jun 24 '13 at 02:54

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '13 at 10:00

First step using QGIS, you have to divide the multipolygon to individual polygins with Vector->Geometry Tools->Multipart to single parts

Then you have to edit the attribute table to give all objects a unique number.

With that, you can use the Shapefile splitter plugin to dissolve the shapefile with several objects into several shapefiles with just one object.

Saving of multi-polygon shapefile into a individual polygon shapefiles

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