[gdal-dev] ogr shapefile viewer

[Chaitanya kumar CH]

Rashad,

I assume you are looking for a simple viewer for non-changing shapefiles.
You can use the GDAL library and the code from the gdal_rasterize utility.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Mohammed Rashad <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Christopher Barker <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
> > wrote:
>
>> On 1/6/11 9:19 AM, Mohammed Rashad wrote:
>>
>>>    Instead of looking for code, I'd rather suggest to sit down and think
>>>    what you need. I assure you, all you need you have in OGR tutorial
>>>    on gdal.org/ogr <http://gdal.org/ogr> website. The only thing you
>>>
>>>    need more is to pass vector data/point to rendering API you want to
>>> use.
>>>
>>> yes Mateusz Loskot, i need this part. passing the vector data/point to a
>>> rendering API.
>>>
>>
>> It's still not clear quite what you want. If you just want to look at
>> shape files, I'd use an off-the-shelf desktop GIS, there are lots, QGIS is
>> pretty nice.
>>
>> You can also render shapefiles with mapnik or mapserver -- both are highly
>> customizable and produce very nice output.
>>
>> If you want a library you can embed in your own app, and maybe customize,
>> that's a different story.
>>
> I need a c++ library to just display an OGR shapefile. i need to embed this
> C++ library in my application that what I need. Is that clear? If you need
> any further details i will provide.
>
>>
>> For Python you could use wxPython and my wx.lib.floatcanvas. It doesn't
>> understand shape files, but with OGR reading them, it's very easy to throw
>> points, lines and polygons on the canvas, and be able to zoom and pan around
>> to look at them.
>>
>> We've also got the "maproom" project:
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/dhelfman/maproom/overview
>>
>> It's a bit stalled out now, but will be revived. It is designed to be a
>> general purpose lib and application for interactive map data viewing and
>> manipulation. It doesn't actually support shape files at the moment, but it
>> does use GDAL/OGR and has support for points and polygons, so not hard to
>> write a new plugin for shape.
>>
>> It's also using OpenGL for speedy rendering.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>>
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> Rashad
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