[Freegis-list] EDBS/ATKIS to some useful GIS-format converter wanted!

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:13:41AM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:10:32AM +0000, Andreas H wrote:
[...]

Thanks for your comments and your offer, Andreas!

> > My main question is:
> > How usefull is a free converter for only restricted available data????
> 
> it is very useful.
> 
> * it will make Free GIS Software such as GRASS more attractive for those
> who need to work with EDBS.

Short sidenote on GRASS: I have written  a script "v.in.edbs_shape"
which allows to separate the SHAPE-files (resulting from the
proprietary EDBS converters) into the map layers ("folien").
Works nice :-) and needs the current v.in.shape from David Gray (find
in GRASS CVS).

So "simply" the EDSB-SHAPE converter is missing...

> * it will generate awareness of Free GIS Software in general
I agree! This would be another reason to convince people,

regards

 Markus