[Freegis-list] Free E00 to Shapefile

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Dear Mike,

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:47:54AM -0500, Mike Boone wrote:
> I'm looking for a free tool to convert the .E00 format to a Shapefile format
> for using it in MapServer. I know GRASS has the ability to import E00 and
> export Shapefiles, but as of yet, I do not understand enough about how to
> use GRASS to do this successfully.
> 
> Is there some simple, free tool out there to convert E00 to Shapefiles? Or a
> good description of how to do it using GRASS? I'm using all free tools at
> this point, so I don't have access to any ESRI software.

I am not aware of a really simple converter in form of a "e002shp".
GRASS certainly can do the task, but you have to learn a little bit
about GRASS because you have to import data first and then export
it in another format.

There are also E00compr and AVECE00 which provide a basis to read
some E00 types. They are not directly outputting shp, so you
would need to add this part e.g. by further processing data
with tools that create shp from simple text formats such as gen2shp.
So, this solution would also involve an intermediate format.

If you are a programmer, I would love to see a "e002shp" because
this conversion task is requested relatively often.

All the best

	Jan
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