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[Frank Warmerdam]

Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:08:31AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > > we have VMAP Level 0 R 3 ready at hand.
> > > OpenMap is able to read the VPF format and convert
> > > it to other formats.
> >
> > Jan,
> >
> > Are you serious that OpenMap now has the ability to save VPF data in
> > other vector formats?  Are you sure?
> 
> You got me. I am not 100% sure. We were able to load and display VPF
> data with OpenMap. There are Java classes for Shapefile handling
> and I don't see a reason why that should not work.
> If it does not work yet, I guess it should be fairly simple
> to fix it (I like Free Software :-).
> 
> Has anyone on this list already tackled or solved this?

Jan,

On my last inspection OpenMap was display-only.  The shapefile and vpf code
didn't seem to include any write support.  

Note that OGDI includes a VPF reader, and I have an ogdi2shp program, so we
should in theory be able to use these to convert VPF to shape.  If you have
a dataset you would like to try converting, feel free to send it to me,
and I can try the process out. 

Note that the free OGDI source is becoming actively maintained again.  The
III (Interformation Interoperability Institute) has launched technical 
operations, and retained me to place the OGDI code on sourceforge, and clean
it up a bit.   I will try to keep this list abreast of significant developments
on this front.  

I hope that at some point OGDI can be distributed on the FreeGIS CDs. 

Best regards,

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