[Freegis-list] NTF to SHP converter

[Frank Warmerdam]

Frank Koormann wrote:
> 
> Penny, List,
> 
> * Penny Bamborough (pennyb at btex.co.uk) [001101 23:10]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of a NTF to ESRI Shape file (SHP) converter ?
> >
> 
> For all: NTF stand for Neutral Transfer Format (former National Transfer
> Format), which is used by the Ordnancy Survey in Britain.
> 
> The bad news: I am currently not aware of any free software to convert
> NTF to another data format.
> 
> To conclude a brief net search:
> - There are gratis tools (or scripts) for some proprietary GIS Tools.
>   You may try www.google.com with "ntf converter".
> - OS also provides data in dxf-Format which can be converted to
>   shapefile e.g. by GRASS.

Penny,

My "OGR Simple Features Library" includes support for reading UK Ordnance
Survey NTF data, and the ogr2ogr commandline program includes support for
writing to other formats, including Shapefiles.  

What platform are you on?  I would be willing to build ogr2ogr for you, 
if you are willing to act as a beta tester. 

More information on OGR is available at:

  http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/

Best regards,

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