[gdal-dev] E00 Translation tools - Hard to Find

[Frank Warmerdam]

Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've just spent about an hour searching for an E00 translator that would 
> run in Linux via a command line, but I didn't find anything. There's one 
> that converts to AVE code, and there source code for one called "Little 
> Shape Conversion" at http://sourceforge.net/projects/shapetools that's 
> missing its libshp source code directory, and there's lots of broken links.
> 
> I've got a large collection off ASCII E00 files that I want to convert 
> to MapInfo TAB.  Apparently ogr2ogr doesn't do this,but is there 
> something in Linux land that does?  I can use  MUT that comes with 
> MapInfo (which I'm doing since this is a rush job), but I'd like a unix 
> solution too. Is there any such tool out there, or do I have to build my 
> own?

Bill,

I'm not sure why you think ogr2ogr doesn't do this.  I have had problems
with the OGR E00 polygon assembly.  If that is the issue, it is helpful
to use the avcimport tool to convert the e00 files to binary coverages
first, and then use ogr2ogr from that.

   http://avce00.maptools.org/

Best regards,
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