[Freegis-list] ESRI Shapefile to a raster format

[Geoffrey Rowland]

I believe when you compile MapServer , 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/index.html , it includes a tool called 
shp2img which does just that.  I could be very wrong however, heh.

Thomas Gfüllner wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have here some shapefiles and want to transform them into
>a raster format, e.g. TIFF. I found shapelib in the GDAL
>source tree, but it dosn't seem that GDAL can do the
>rendering.
>
>Are there other free tools? 
>
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