.DM File Format

[Thomas Hammerlund]

Thank you very much.

The data might be in x, y format - I haven't been able to make much sense of 
it yet.  Basically it looks like this.
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M 01      #0#1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25008)C10];}Bh#0#1!]#0#2!]!]#4#09f 0
-136018  26693-134302  29793    26056 124904 10-134302  26693-136018  29793
                                        02
0510051000#D#I#A#P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!100
9q:]9R6H3t<02q<R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -62   4 -94   4 -94   4 -62   4
H 1100         0 1    1    0    0    1    0    0    0    0    0    000510 
0
E21103         1 2 03 60 00  33   9      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
      0 264954      0   2510 265086      0   9467 266997      0  14665 
265766      0
  20901 265532      0  32198 263786      0  35178 263861      0  41656 
265611      0
  45197 263769      0  49691 262341      0  55551 258232      0  59902 
254936      0
  64366 254290      0  73035 253092      0  86465 248904      0  86275 
255552      0
  87565 259421      0  89858 262064      0  90721 263492      0  90937 
265127      0
  90660 267222      0  90438 271160      0  92763 275983      0  93605 
284321      0
  91921 286163      0  85827 291201      0  83668 293688      0  76970 
297180      0
  73937 299899      0  72838 301821      0  72574 303743      0  75135 
306732      0
  75666 310000      0
H 2100         0 1  421    0    0  421    0    0    0    0    0    000510 
0
E22101         1 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
   1938 238580  52985   2082 238843  52985
E22101         2 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
    885 224636  49611   1089 224855  49611
E22101         3 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
  11782 289788  56566  11571 290093  56566
E22101         4 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
  23440 144000  40055  23283 144255  40055
E22101         5 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
   2327 139468  37716   1982 139524  37716
E22101         6 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
  66276 137482  48179  66332 137777  48179
E22101         7 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
  70854 142545  51013  70885 142844  51013
E22101         8 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
   2605 132449  38135   2922 132693  38135
E22101         9 2 03 60 01   2   1      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
   4616 169882  41840   4363 170142  41840
E22101        10 2 03 60 01   6   2      0      0      0 0       0510 
1
  17817 117965  37238  17092 118039  37287  16305 118153  37335  15634 
118288  37367


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)" <bartvde at xs4all.nl>
To: "Thomas Hammerlund" <tom at MAPLINK.JP>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.umn.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] .DM File Format


> Is this a table with X and Y values?
>
> If so, once you have it in Access you can set up OGR Virtual Spatial Data
> (an ovf file) for your Access table. See also:
>
> http://iweb.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html
>
> Ogr can output shapefiles so using the ogr2ogr utility you can transform
> the data to a point shp.
>
> Bart
>
>> Thank you Stephen.
>>
>> This is probably out of the scope of the list, but do you know if there 
>> is
>> there a way to convert them to Shape files?
>>
>> Thank you again.
>> Tom
>>
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Stephen Kelly
>>   To: 'Thomas Hammerlund' ; MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>>   Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 7:43 PM
>>   Subject: RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] .DM File Format
>>
>>
>>   Tom,
>>
>>
>>
>>   MS Access can import Paradox (.db) files
>>
>>
>>
>>   Stephen Kelly
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>   From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Thomas Hammerlund
>>   Sent: Monday, 10 July 2006 6:15 PM
>>   To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>>   Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] .DM File Format
>>
>>
>>
>>   Hi Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>>   I have some data in .dm format.  I have never seen this beofre but
>> here's
>> what I've found:
>>
>>
>>
>>   It's a format from a company called Borland Software, and there's some
>> kind of database viewercalled Paradox to view the data.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Has anyone seen this file format before, or does anyone know where/how 
>> I
>> can download the db viewer?  It's a file called "pdxwin32.exe", but 
>> Google
>> isn't being kind today.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Thank you,
>>
>>   Tom
>>
>
>
>