GRASS to shape files

[David Mandel]

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Bruce Atherton wrote:

> Hello,
> Has anyone converted GRASS files to shape files that would import into
> ArcView 3.0?  Or can someone point me to the description of the shape file
> format?
> I'd like to export data to ArcView and/or farm mapping software such as Agris.
> Thanks in advance!
> Bruce
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> Bruce Atherton, Graduate Research Assoc.   atherton.10 at osu.edu
> Dept of Food, Ag and Biol Engineering      NRCS Ohio: stateoff!bruce.atherton
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> --------------

Bruce,
    There is a white paper at http://www.esri.com describing the 
shape file formats in detail, and I have used this paper to write 
the beginnings of a library to handle shape files.  In fact, I have
gotten as far as completing two programs:
                 moss2shape     and     shape2moss
These aren't very interesting in themselves, but they demonstrate the
functionality of the shape library.  Eventually, I want to write dig2shape
and shape2dig, and I want to write programs to reproject shape files.
Unfortunately, I'm tied up with other projects at the moment, but I hope
to get back to this.  Call me during the day at (503) 952-6570 for more
details.

                                               Dave Mandel
                                               dmandel at transport.com
                                               (503) 952-6570


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