Even Rouault

The above link no longer works. Wayback machine has an interesting old version https://web.archive.org/web/20190512124712/https://www.geobasis-bb.de/geodaten/dienst_progr.htm where it appears the grid has an associated fee

ZIP with grid downloaded from https://geobroker.geobasis-bb.de/eco.php?mode=inWarenkorb&aProductId=3b55a940-95c7-42d6-901b-1215ebffc1f6 attached here: [1938473531000010861_data.zip](https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/files/4008425/1938473531000010861_data.zip) with Terms of use: Data license Germany - attribution - version 2.0, https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0 ; dl-de-by-2.0, attribution: "GeoBasis-DE / LGB",

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> so there are definitely some in the wild. OK, so if we want to support such files in shapelib (and then in GDAL), I would suggest a different approach...

> The size of the DBF file seems invariant to the number of rows... I don't get this. Normally file_size (roughly) = fixed_header_size + number_of_fields * field_description_size + number_of_rows *...

> I wonder what the correct workflow is for the DBF in the case where it has no fields? In that case, OGR creates a dummy "FID" field so that...

Closing this stalled PR

> However, looking at [gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape](https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/master/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape), it doesn't currently look like shapelib is being built as C++ in sGDAL hum, at some point, I certainly did it. Not sure why it...