[Freegis-list] shape file with gen2shp

[Ken Waters]

Hi Ari,

I believe I tried that route already.  I think the problem may have been 
that I couldn't find the shapelib C library compiled for Windows.  I 
looked for Windows binaries for the shapelib library but didn't find 
them.  Your documentation points to a URL 
(http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib/index.html) for the required 
shapefile C library.  I get a dead link when I try to access this URL.  
I think that was why I gave up before and tried the 'gen2shp' option.  
Is there another location for this library?

If a CPAN module can do it all, in Windows, then I'm on board!

Thanks,

Ken

Ari Jolma wrote:

> Ken Waters wrote:
>
>> gen2shp webpage (http://www.intevation.de/~jan/gen2shp 
>> <http://www.intevation.de/%7Ejan/gen2shp>).  I wrote a Perl program 
>> which put my geographic information into the gen format.
>>
>
> This sounds a bit cumbersome because you can write shapefiles directly 
> from Perl. You could just use my Geo::Shapelib (which is a thin Perl 
> interface to shapelib C library) or some of the other modules under 
> the Geo::  namespace in CPAN.
>
> Ari
>