[Thuban-list] Newbie: Importing e00 files

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Stoller,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:50:51PM +0100, Stoller Ingenieurtechnik GmbH wrote:
> I am new to GIS but not to programming.
> Thuban looks interesting. 
> 
> Is there a way to import e00 files?

Currently Thuban only deals with shapefiles.
You would need to convert the e00 files first using other tools.

> I got them from: 
>  http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/
> 
> Background:
>  I want to write an application which should have
>  a clickable map of russia. You should see the most
>  important cities and some points added from a
>  database.
> 
> Or is better to use sketch? Both (thuban and sketch) seem
> to be developed at intevation. What speaks for, what against
> using one of them?

Sketch is a pretty complete general vector drawing application.
E.g. you can use it to finalise maps before printing.

Thuban is an interactive geoviewer and focused on this task.
Its idea is to browse and edit the data interactively.

> BTW, Why is there so view traffic on this list?  Is thuban used seldom?

There is so few traffic, because Thuban is in its early stages
and most users so far communicate with developers at Intevation quite closely
not using the list.

> What are the alternatives?
> Plattform will be win32 and unix.

Check out freegis.org, there are plenty.

> Please CC to me, I am not on the list.

	Bernhard
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