[gdal-dev] ESRI text format?

[Ralf Suhr]

Hi Chris,

the text is a edit-session from ArcGIS. ogr2ogr can't read this.

Gr
Ralf

Am Donnerstag 27 Mai 2010 04:17:56 schrieb Christopher Barker:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I"m dealing with some text data files that were exported from ArcMap as
> "text files". They have polygons in them, an look like this:
> 
> Polygon
> 0 0
> 0 -86.9890993091 28.999375461 1.#QNAN 1.#QNAN
> 1 -87.0129414796 28.9832507557 1.#QNAN 1.#QNAN
> 2 -87.0312816107 28.9590589356 1.#QNAN 1.#QNAN
> 3 -87.0551237811 28.9179197345 1.#QNAN 1.#QNAN
> ...
> 
> 
> Does anyone know what to call this format, and can OGR read or write it?
> 
> I tried ogrinfo on it, and it wasn't recognized, so probably not, but I
> thought someone might have a hint.
> 
> The problem at hand is to convert shape files with polygons into this
> format, I was hoping it would be a simple call to org2ogr, but I guess I
> may have to write a python script.
> 
> -Chris