[Freegis-list] shapefiles tools?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Emily,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:04:40AM -0700, Emily Johnson wrote:
> I am pretty much still learning about polygons,
> shapefiles format and all the rests of the stuff. Is
> there a Java tool to combine multiple shapefiles to
> one single shapefile? For example, m1.shp, m2.shp,
> m3.shp to just one file, mall.shp. Is there also a
> Java tool to make a shapefile given a set of latlon
> values?
> 
> Could someone please tell me what type of GIS tool I
> should be looking for? Thanks for the help.

AFAIK there is no tool that does what you want out of the box.
There is OpenMap, a voluminous set of GIS functionality written
in Java. Shapefile I/O is included, so if you feel able, you can
pick the sources and adopt them for your purpose.

If you just need the join-job to be done for shapefile files,
there is no real need for a Java solution. You can use/modify other
tools for it.

Jan

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