[gdal-dev] hdf5 to esri shape-file converter

[Steffen Macke]

Hi Chandra,

> I was looking for a converter tool to convert a given hdf5 file (.mh5) to
> esri shape-files(.shp) and vice versa.

GDAL supports reading of HDF5 raster data. But Shape files are vector data.
The process to convert from raster to vector data is called Vectorization.
And Vectorization is not a straightforward thing. See e.g

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization_(computer_graphics)

But HDF5 can actually many different things:
Are you talking about HDF5 files with raster or vector data?

Regards,

Steffen