[Freegis-list] ESRI Shapefile to a raster format

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:01:10PM +0100, Thomas Gfüllner wrote:
> 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? 

Many tools can read shapefiles.
Mapserver can do it, OpenMap, Thuban, GRASS and even Sketch.sf.net
to name just a few.

Note that just the information in the shapefiles is not enough
to render nice maps, though. You need to specify that further.

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