[Mapserver-users] E00 to SHP Conversion Utilities?

[Lowther, David W]

Dan,

The utility IMPORT71.exe that comes with Arcview is made for this... I'm not
sure if it is available freely or not.

If you just have a couple of files Dan send em my way and I'll convert for
you.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Morissette [mailto:morissette at dmsolutions.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:01 AM
> To: Dan Barron
> Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] E00 to SHP Conversion Utilities?
> 
> 
> Dan Barron wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone have a suggestion on the best approach to convert E00 
> > files to SHP files?  I have tried the FME Suite from Safe 
> Sowftware, 
> > are there other available tools/utilities to accomplish this 
> > conversion?
> > 
> 
> FME is definitely the best option, but the license may be expensive.
> 
> Unfortunately OGR doesn't support reading E00 files yet, 
> otherwise using ogr2ogr would be a good option too.  I'm sure 
> many GIS packages will allow import of E00 and export to 
> shapefiles, but I don't have any to suggest.
> 
> However, OGR (GDAL 1.1.8) does support reading binary 
> coverages, so you can do the conversion in two steps if you want:
> 
> 1- Convert your E00s to binary coverages using the 
> 'AVCIMPORT' utility at 
> http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-> avce00.html
> 
> 2- Use 
> 'ogr2ogr' (part of GDAL 1.1.8) to 
> convert the binary coverages to shapefiles.  There should be 
> some docs on using ogr2ogr on the OGR website at 
> http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/index.> html
> 
> Daniel
> -- 
> 
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