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Thanks for your help, <BR>
it has to be a Shapefile because we do some further processing (symbology, map creation...).<BR>
The netCDF file contains hydrodynamics point data.<BR>
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Best regards<BR>
Manuel<BR> <BR>
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:32:16 +0530<BR>Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] netCDF to Shapefile<BR>From: chaitanya.ch@gmail.com<BR>To: manuelrainer@hotmail.com<BR>CC: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<BR><BR>Manuel,<BR><BR>Shapefile is for vector formats alone. Try a raster format to convert the netCDF data.<BR><BR>As for the performance, you don't need to cache anything. But it may help to tweak the GDAL_CACHEMAX setting.<BR><A href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQRaster#Howtoimprovegdalwarpperfomance" target=_blank>http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQRaster#Howtoimprovegdalwarpperfomance</A><BR><BR>
<DIV class=ecxgmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Manuel Rainer <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:manuelrainer@hotmail.com">manuelrainer@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Hi,<BR> <BR>I would like to convert certain time slices (records) out of a netCDF file to a Shapefile.<BR>The netCDF file has 7> GB, so what is the best proceed to get an appropriate performance?<BR>I mean, should the data be cached (e.g. in an ASCII file, ...) before writing a Shapefile or can the shp directly be generated?<BR>Perhaps you have some experiences...<BR> <BR>Thanks for your help!<BR>Best regards <BR>Manuel<BR> <BR> <BR></DIV><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>gdal-dev mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev" target=_blank>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Best regards,<BR>Chaitanya kumar CH.<BR>/tʃaɪθənjə/ /kʊmɑr/ <BR>+91-9494447584<BR>17.2416N 80.1426E<BR> </body>
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