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reorg after merging in #1

stefanb and others added 5 commits April 6, 2015 22:15
DBF file structure allows up to 11 characters/bytes in the field name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dbf#File_Architecture_Overview), while ShapeFile spec sets the limit to 10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile ) within the same DBF. 

This change allows reading longer field names. Writing such files could be seen as producing non-standard compliant, but reading them does no harm (null characters are stripped out anyway).

We're using this on http://raba.openstreetmap.si since
openstreetmap-si/raba.openstreetmap.si@b72c357
(dbf files within shapefile zips were adjusted with [bbe](http://linux.die.net/man/1/bbe) to insert an extra character)
@calvinmetcalf calvinmetcalf merged commit 0d8328e into master May 15, 2015
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