First, one can get ArcExplorer, a free tool from ESRI's web site, to display shapefiles. It's a read-only tool but I use it to insure that shapefiles that one of my programs produces really contain what I intended for them to contain.
I use a library for writing shapefiles from this location: http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib/index.html Therefore, one must write a little code to patch these into DX, but it should be straightforward. Regards, David L. Humphrey Director, Technical Services Bell Geospace, Inc > -----Original Message----- > From: Lloyd A Treinish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [opendx-users] shapefiles to DX > > > Has anyone posted a shapefile (Arc/Info) reader/filter for DX > or know of a > free (or nearly free) generic reader? I don't own a license > to any ESRI > software, and would rather not buy one. What I have been > doing is getting > the people that provide the shapefiles to convert it to the Arc export > format, which is pretty easy to read with a simple c program as a DX > filter. But that's getting inconvenient as opposed to > working with the > shapefiles directly. Thanks. >
