GRASS to shape files

[William A. Perkins]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Cox <simon at ned.dem.csiro.au> writes:

    Simon> David Mandel wrote:
    >> 
    >> 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.

    Simon> Onya Dave!  Keep up the good work.  I wonder if there 
    Simon> are any other SHAPE libraries around that you could leverage off?
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Evidently this library does exist, and is free. A really nice example
of its use can be found at the Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness
homepage <http://www.gis.umn.edu:80/bwcaw/mapping/mapping.html>.  In
their FAQ they point to a shape file library at
<ftp://ftp.pci.on.ca/pub/pd/>.  I have not used it, but from the looks
of the BWCAW GIS MapServer, it ought to be pretty complete.

Bill

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