Advanced Shapefile Merger

Italian GIS blogger Toni sent me a message about a sophisticated OGR-based shapefile merger utility he created.  Last year I posted a simple pyshp example that would find all ".shp" files in a directory and merge the geometry and attributes into a single shapefile.  Toni's version takes this concept much further to include wildcards, recursive directory walking, exclusion lists, and some dbf tricks.  You can find this utility at Toni's blog "Furious GIS":

http://furiousgis.blogspot.it/2012/05/python-shapefile-merger-utility.html