I am involved in a GIS project. I have a base map file (shape file) that contains the road layer for a large portion of a town. The problem is that the shape file contains only two features each containing around 500000 points each. The features are multipolygons containing a large no of polygons inside. I wish to convert it to numerous features each containing not more than one polygon. Is it possible? If yes, how?
Seems like what you have here is a multi-part feature. If you are using ArcGIS, you need to add the advance editor toolbar in your arcmap. Start an editing session and use the explode multi-part feature tool and then you will have one geometry for each record.