[Thuban-list] how to import text file with point data

[Moritz Lennert]

On Wed, November 17, 2004 14:41, Jan-Oliver Wagner said:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:53:04PM +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> A colleague of mine has a text file with x,y coordinates of point data.
>> He
>> would like to use this in Thuban. What would be the best way to do this
>> ?
>> Should he create a shape file ? Should we install PostGIS and import the
>> points into a table ? Is there a direct text file import ?
>
> I received a very big extension where this is a part of :-)
> However, it needs to be pulled out of the big extension and
> it also needs to be translated from german to english.
>
> It looks similar to the import dialog of OpenOffice.org
> or other spreadsheets where you import CSV.
>
> Anyone who volunteers?
>


I can certainly do the translation and I am willing to look into the
extraction part, but without any promises (not being the great programming
expert)...

>
> Another way is to separate the text file into a coordinate
> file in the GENERATE format and a attribute file in CVS style.
> The coordinates can then be converted to shp with gen2shp
> and the CSV with toold like txt2dbf.

Thanks a lot for the hint, my colleague will try this solution.

Moritz

P.S.

In order to comile gen2shp on Debian I had to change

#include <libshp/shapefil.h>

on line 24 of gen2shp.c to

#include <shapefil.h>

Moritz