[Freegis-list] Free E00 to Shapefile

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:07:29PM -0500, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If anyone knows someone (or a group/company) who would be ready to fund
> such a project (at least in part), then it could definitely be done by
> implementing a AVCE00 driver in Frank Warmerdam's OGR library... I built
> AVCE00 with this objective in mind... that would give the ability to go
> from E00 or binary coverages to any OGR-supported format using ogr2ogr. 
> That would also give any OGR-enabled application access to those 2
> formats directly.

can you write up a paragraph what exactly is needed and how to solve
the problem? I would then add it to the page 
http://freegis.org/proposals.en.html
. I would be glad if we can extend this page with all major issues
in Free GIS Software.

	Jan

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