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<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> We are in need of reading the contents of ".shp" file.And we are using java for this.The problem is the .shp file is having a variable "<B>byte order".</B>For some record contents the byte order is "big endian" and for some it is "little endian".I can read the big endian types but not the little endian ones.I am getting wrong values that dont match with the file specifications.Can anybody out there help me on deciding which file reader class I should use in java to read all the .shp file contents.Thanks in advance.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Shankar</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 1. first free (GPLed) EDBS reader now available (Jan-Oliver Wagner)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 2. Re: first free (GPLed) EDBS reader now available (Jan-Oliver Wagner)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 3. Re: OpenMap 4.1.1 has been released! (fwd) (Timothy H. Keitt)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 4. US National Atlas Data (Frank Warmerdam)</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:02:40 +0100</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan@intevation.de></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: FreeGIS Mailing List <freegis-list@intevation.de></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: [Freegis-list] first free (GPLed) EDBS reader now available</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello everybody,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">some of you may remember the EDBS discussion several</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">weeks ago. No EDBS (that is a GI format mainly used</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">in Germany for ATKIS) reader was available as Free</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Software.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Our discussion and the following contacts lead</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to the release of Java source codes for handling</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">EDBS: EDBSjavaReader 1.0.0.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks go to Markus Neteler for the intial contact</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and of course to the authors Stephan Falke and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Carsten Kleiner (both from computer science</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">department at University of Hannover).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(360 KByte)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This package is unmaintained and looking for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Currently you will need Java (of course) and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oracle. It should be possible to substitute</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oracle by other (free) databases with some work.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Oh and: all the documentation is in German.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please leave a note if anyone picks up the code</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and does some maintenance (or just a web site, ...).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Jan</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jan-Oliver Wagner </FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://intevation.de/~jan/" TARGET="_blank">http://intevation.de/~jan/</A></FONT></U>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Message: 2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:08:08 +0100</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan@intevation.de></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: FreeGIS Mailing List <freegis-list@intevation.de></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] first free (GPLed) EDBS reader now available</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:02:40PM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> EDBS: EDBSjavaReader 1.0.0.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> (360 KByte)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">download URL did not made into this announcement :-( :</FONT>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/EDBSjavaReader-1.0.0.tar.gz" TARGET="_blank">ftp://intevation.de/freegis/misc/EDBSjavaReader-1.0.0.tar.gz</A></FONT></U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jan</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jan-Oliver Wagner </FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://intevation.de/~jan/" TARGET="_blank">http://intevation.de/~jan/</A></FONT></U>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Message: 3</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:28:57 -0500</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: "Timothy H. Keitt" <Timothy.Keitt@StonyBrook.Edu></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: freegis-list@intevation.de</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] OpenMap 4.1.1 has been released! (fwd)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">OpenMap is a great package. I can't help but think that it would widely </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">adopted in the community if it were released under the GPL.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tim</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Bernhard Reiter wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> We've released version 4.1.1 of OpenMap(tm) at</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://openmap.bbn.com" TARGET="_blank">http://openmap.bbn.com</A></FONT></U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> (or</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.openmap.org" TARGET="_blank">http://www.openmap.org</A></FONT></U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> OpenMap is open source software. This is a patchlevel/bugfix release only - </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> code relying on the OpenMap 4.1 API should also run with OpenMap 4.1.1 without</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> changes. New for this release:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Timothy H. Keitt</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Department of Ecology and Evolution</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">State University of New York at Stony Brook</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Message: 4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:01:03 -0500</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Reply-To: warmerdam@pobox.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: FreeGIS <freegis-list@intevation.de></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: [Freegis-list] US National Atlas Data</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Folks, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I think the US National Atlas information is a candidate for listing on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the freegis pages.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html</A></FONT></U>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The data is in the public domain as indicated by the national atlas FAQ:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"13. I've noticed the little registered trademark symbol in "The National </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Atlas of the United States of America®." Does this mean that National Atlas </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">data is proprietary?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">No. Nearly all information collected by the federal government is in the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">public domain and use of data produced under this project will not be </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">restricted in any way. Both "National Atlas of the United States®" and "The </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">National Atlas of the United States of America® are registered trademarks </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">of the United States Department of the Interior. The USGS has been publishing </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">National Atlas products since 1970 and has simply taken action to trademark </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">this term to incorporate all new graphic and electronic products of The </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">National Atlas of the United States of America®"</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The data is in SDTS, E00, Shape and TIFF formats. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Best regards,</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">light and sound - activate the windows |</FONT><U> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="http://pobox.com/~warmerda" TARGET="_blank">http://pobox.com/~warmerda</A></FONT></U>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent</FONT>
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