Thanks for the pointer. Yes, that looks useful... (I do have the free ArcExplorer.)
---------------------- Forwarded by Lloyd A Treinish/Watson/IBM on 03/19/2002 07:44 PM --------------------------- "T. S. Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 03/19/2002 04:09:18 PM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: [opendx-users] shapefiles to DX Lloyd A Treinish wrote: > > 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. There is at least one at http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib/ Cheers, -tsy ---------------------- Forwarded by Lloyd A Treinish/Watson/IBM on 03/19/2002 07:44 PM --------------------------- David Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@opendx.watson.ibm.com on 03/19/2002 04:50:29 PM Please respond to [email protected] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> cc: Subject: RE: [opendx-users] shapefiles to DX 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
